My personal opinion about "How schools kill creativity"

In my opinion, the schools and the teachers are trying to prepare the children for a world that is always working and that is not bad but the schools don’t prepare the children to a social life. Because if they think that making a group with people who is not working at the same rhythm than you is socialization, they are wrong. Doing that, the children is going to learn that every time someone is going to try to say that he/she know more things than you or is going to try to take the easy way and he/she is not going to work.

The education must to prepare the people to show who they are and to share with the world abilities and likes, working in groups and having fun. But not being prepared for to be a professional but prepared for being a person that can speak to everybody and say what he/she is thinking with respect and not feeling that is not intelligent or that is not part of a society. Because all of us is different, I mean is enough to take a look around you and you will see that there is a lot of people doing something different and looks different… in conclusion, different lives.

How schools kill creativity...

Education is something that is in everybody's mouths and minds. As it should be.

Most of these people want to improve the quality of our education system, because let's face it: it's horrible. I want to be a teacher, even with this awful system. And maybe it's because of this.

Sir Ken Robinson tell us that creativity is, along with other things, one of the most important things we need in our lifes in order to succeed. His speech really made me think about how most adults we know are afraid of being wrong, and when they make a mistake it's like the end of the world for them. And the schools are the responsible for this world with people watching carefully everything they do, "making everything right". As Robinson said "if you are not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original"

For me, as a future teacher, that's something that I want my students to learn; it's ok to be wrong sometimes. If you want to came up with a better idea, learn and create new things from that mistakes. We need to stop being like everybody else in this educational system. I would like to teach my future students the importance of being creative.

My opinion about "How schools kill creativity" by Ken Robinson.

In my personal opinion I think that Ken is right when he says “the schools kill the creativity” because we know that in the present the people, specifically the teachers in the schools or high schools would have them believe that there are some important subjects like maths, languages or science that are more important than arts for help them in the future get a “good job” limiting the potential of some people who have different talents. But sometimes the schools incentive the students to practise these talents for fun or hobby as extracurricular activity for a short period of time, and actually it’s unusual that the schools or teachers incentive the students to do this as a job for live because in our country to be an actor, a painter, a musician, an artist sometimes is frowned upon yet, and for that they restrict themselves and try to forget the creativity and to become oppressed people, people unhappy with their jobs and lives. 

Jeraldina Neira Baeza. 

How schools kill creativity

I would like to emphasize the part when Ken Robinson spoke about creative children that can’t do what they like to do, what they are good for, they are stopped by their parents, their schools, and our society. I’ve always thought that artist people are like more intelligent in some way than scientist maybe or engineers because, if they want to be successful, they need to create, they use their creativity and the most important thing it’s that they’re in contact with nature, with society, with problems that happen in our country, they know a lot of things and they use it!, they use everything for a song, a picture, a movie…

They’re not sitting in one room study long books all the day, they’re practicing all day, and that’s what we need, more movement, more creativity, to do the same things but in different ways. 

By Camila Sánchez

Welcome

Hello everyone, In this blog I will be posting some materials for the class, but most importatnly in here you will be posting and adding your own work. The firts assignment is to write a personal opinion in 150 to 200 words about the talk "How schools kill creativity" by Ken Robinson.