Guest speaker
Ken Robinson
address an interesting point relating our
educational system with our
level of creativity. He claims
that schools are
“educating people out of their creative capacity. To demonstrate this idea he indicated that the education system is structured to
create more college professors. For
one thing, It is noticeable that not all schools are teaching students
humanities in the same fashion they are being taught math. Outside the arts, creative
thinking is also stigmatized as he states. The educational system punishes students for making
mistakes instead of granting
students an opportunity fix their
wrongs. In the future this leads
to how companies operate. In
further details companies dismiss creativity causing them to never become original.
To
put this topic into
perspective this is happening at my undergrad college Clarion University.
Clarion University is attempting to
drop its music department .
Chieflly speaking , this is a clear perspective that creative arts are placed at the bottom of the educational hierarchy. With the intention to save money
we are losing the value of creativity. Even though the educational system does not care for education, Ken
Robinson believes that creativity
is equal to academic education.
Similar to Ken Robinson’s view I also share the same view.
As a high school student I attended a school for the creative and performing arts known as “CAPA”. Different from
other school creativity was as important or more important
than academic education. At the school half the day was committed to
academics and the other half of the day was committed to art. At this school students were taught their talent just as they would have been taught math or reading. As result students were allowed to grow
into their creative side instead
of being forced to bury it. After
graduating I grew to appreciate the school therefore I share the same views
as Ken Robinson.
