Please listen to this (schools, masters, science, major)

[Demonbane]

Please listen to this. It sounds pretty reasonable to me.

Do schools kill creativity? [VIDEO]

[killer2021]

hes exactly right and he stated the reason precisely:

We teach kids not to fail or to be afraid of failure. As a result, kids don't take risks and never try anything new. The whole idea of creativity is designed around creating new things or ideas. With every new thing or idea there is always the risk of failure or unacceptance.

On a side note: the lecture was pretty funny.

[NJBest]

If you like this video.. you should read Daniel Pink's A Whole New Mind.

It's older (from 2006), but discusses where right-brain dominant individuals will play an important role in the future. He also goes as far as going to an MFA (Masters of Fine Arts) instead of an MBA. According to his book, individuals with MBAs will be outsourced relatively quickly in the next decade.

[syracusa]

I am sitting at the wall ready to take the stones.

Major piece of subtle "New World" propaganda - just like most things that pass for "education" nowadays.

Ready, set, go!!

[cebdark]

Originally Posted by syracusa

I am sitting at the wall ready to take the stones.

Major piece of subtle "New World" propaganda - just like most things that pass for "education" nowadays.

Ready, set, go!!

I'm not hurling stones, but I do like this Ken Robinson lecture. It makes a lot of sense based on what I'm seeing with my school-age children.

I think it's more like inane testing in schools is what's killing creativity.



YouTube - RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms

[syracusa]

Originally Posted by reloop

I'm not hurling stones, but I do like this Ken Robinson lecture. It makes a lot of sense based on what I'm seeing with my school-age children.
I think it's more like inane testing in schools is what's killing creativity.

You're absolutely right; but I am afraid he did not just say "we are evaluating children the wrong way".

He is throwing around that buzz word - "creativity" - which has been sold to the public as the wonder-solution to all societal woes, under the premises that whatever classical education has to offer is no longer relevant to our world and that something else, no one knows exactly what, should be emphasized, taught, encouraged or "brought out" in children.

Questioning why pretty much all societies, all over the world, have reading, writing, math and sciences as their top educational priorities (as opposed to "dance")...is not critical or innovative thinking.
It is cynical mind manipulation.

But as you may note, the guy is British, charming, funny and massively confident in that super-classy, smart, understated British way.
The perfect propaganda delivery tool!

Gotta be "crazy" not to buy what he's selling.
Or just painfully aware.