domingo, 21 de junio de 2009

Do schools kill creativity?

Hello, today I am going to do a review of a talk called "Do schools kills creativity?"given by Sir Ken Robinson, in which analyzes the reasons that education influences the development of creativity of children; he gives this talk for a wide audience, but especially for parents of young children and I think that he is absolutely right because I see it in the education that is giving in the school to my younger brother.

Sir Ken Robinson propose mainly that in the school ignoring the capacity to develop creativity of children, I mean, in the school emphasize to strengthen areas such as math and language, leaving in last place creativity, being that this is hugely important for child development in the future -as he said "to face the future"-. He gives evidence of this importance with the history of a renowned choreographer who when she was a child in school did not can develop the talent that had to dance, so when her mother put her in a dance school everything changed and now she is what she is because it is left to develop their extraordinary abilities and talents in dancing.

Throughout his talk he was very spontaneous and attentive to keeping the public with various jokes or funny things that he said that did not make get bored to the public while he was talking, and despite the fact that Sir Ken conveys a personal opinion, he shows appropriate evidence to make the public think and find the reason. Fortunately his talk was very interesting and detailed each item to be developed, making clear his position and views on the topic and develops each point to which to refer so that everyone can understand, even I that never had raised this issue.

I think this talk makes it very clear that great care must be taken when establishing a model of education and must not be set aside any area of capacity building of individuals, that is why we need to give emphasis to all during the first years of school and throughout the training process, only then they can convert in full adults with the capacity to face the world.


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