Do schools kill creativity?
Posted by DAVID BC TAN under: Education; schooling on 1 Sep 2008.
If you have not visited the TED website before, please do. TED means Technology, Entertainment, Design – an annual conference that attempts to provoke and inspire by bringing together some of the world’s most influential thinkers and performers. There’s a lot that’s fascinating, and certainly, a lot more that won’t necessarily go down well with everyone. But there’s so much that are provocative in the best ways.
Here’s a talk by Sir Ken Robinson that’s simply titled, “Do Schools Kill Creativity?” Now with a title like this, you wonder if there’s something that might resonate with homeschoolers.
Sir Ken argues that we’re living in a world where our definition of intelligence has shifted, and where paper degrees do not mean as much as they used to. He tells his audience that intelligence is (a) diverse – multi-facetted and varied, (b) dynamic – interactive, and (c) distinct – creative (“Creativity is having original ideas that have value”). And creativity is sadly neglected in our schools today, to the detriment of society. Check out Sir Ken.
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