How Schools kill creativity
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- utopian
It funny how this video keeps on resurfacing each and every year... I take that the school system as we know it blows!
- jfletcher0
it's a great talk. Reading some of his books as well.
- ukit0
That new CNN site design is killing creativity
- lowimpakt0
i sat through one of Ken's lectures a few months back. over an hour with no slides etc.
I could have listened to him for days.
- lowimpakt0
just noticed that CNN changed the title to "How schools stifle creativity" as opposed to kill creativity..
dicks
- airey0
soooo, would we prefer highly creative but uneducated morons?
just wondering what the options are exactly. homeschool is great if you want to raise the next unabomber so wouldn't this come down to parental efforts to raise creativity - if your kid is a creative type?
just asking for the sake of discussion.
- great vid btw. the TED podcasts are awesome. 301 there now. tryong to get through it all!airey
- FredMcWoozy0
<unzips pants>
- jfletcher0
airey - why is moron synonymous with creative? Seems like a very narrow way of viewing “creative”. Doesn’t mean you lose all basic education, but that people are different and have different ways of learning. There are plenty of people who go to great schools who just aren't that smart. There are also people who waste their time in crap schools, but are amazingly smart.
- dopepope0
creative arguement
- airey0
jfletcher - totally agree, was just throwing out the extreme for the sake of argument and, to face facts, i'm one of us creatives. obviously creativity is important as it leads to lateral thinking etc in every walk of life.
the only reason i ask, is that with an intellectual like sir ken you get a complete package of thought but i've had convos with people that seem to place creativity above things like mathematics as a priority for school kids. it's not a matter of learning one or the other but the basics are important and yet some newer teaching methods have led to a checkout clerk unable to give change from $5 without a calculator.
- jfletcher0
ha, I totally get when the person at the grocery store can't subtract 8.60 from 10.00. That baffles me.
The basics are important to a degree, but how much do you really remember about geometry (I remember almost nothing). Granted geometry is beyond the basics, so I don’t think people need that as much.
The flip side may cause a bit more issues. What is people had to learn the basics of music, composition, type, dance. I think people would have a fit. You’d have parents saying how it was a huge waste of time... but only because they have learned it is, not because it actually is. The ability to think beyond what you were told as a kid can be pretty rough for a lot of people. If all of the sudden you think what you know is wrong. The earth was flat for a long time :)
I’d also love to see world religion taught in school, but I doubt that will happen in the US for some time.