Creative Review

Sir Ken Robinson : Do Schools Kill Creativity?

Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining lecture that's highly moving on the case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity throughout a comical yet serious speech.

Here is an image of Ken Robinson speaking;

Here are some things that Ken Talks about that I feel just makes sense and feel I can relate to, for instance;
Education is meant to take us into the future, creativity is as important as in literacy and we should treat it as the same status.
Basically saying that people shouldn't ignore creativity as creativity is very important to people as it does play a big part throughout all our lives in different aspects of how we live.
'Robinson who earns his living as a speaker on creativity, does not blame the teachers "its the system, its too linear" he says'.

I like the way throughout the lecture Ken relates to children and Picasso talking about the fact that children are not afraid of being wrong and making mistakes and you'll never come up with anything original if your not prepared to do wrong. I feel this really relates to me throughout they way I work as Picasso is one of my influences, especially creating fond images throughout the imagination and creativity from children its so breathe taking they way they interpret life its refreshing.
As when your a child you see life in a different aspect and you don't worry about things as when you do when you get older. When your a child you have so much freedom and your imagination is so creative its extravagant. However when children become adults some of them will lose this capacity of being frightened of being wrong.

Here is a quote that by Picasso that Ken relates to;

Picasso -  'All children are born artists the problem is to remain an artist as you grow up.'

Then Ken talks about why education is growing out creativity? He says; throughout hierarchy in schools, art is at the bottom and maths and modern foreign languages is at the top. Robinson feels that schools need to eliminate the existing hierarchy of subjects as all areas are equally important and central contributions to making a students education.

'Robinson who earns his living as a speaker on creativity, does not blame the teachers "its the system, its too linear" he says'. quoted from an interview with Jessica Shepherd - 'Fertile minds need feeding' (The Guardian)

It could be argued that his idea on intelligence is quite clever and rings true to reality for instance;
Robinson expresses that we need to radically rethink of our intelligence as we know there are three things about intelligence:

Quotes from Ken Robinson:  

"1. Intelligence is diverse, we think about the world in all the ways we experience , we think visually, we think in sound, we think in kinesthetically, we think in abstract terms and we think in movement.  

2. Intelligence is dynamic, the human brain is wonderfully interactive throughout intelligence, creativity which he defines the process as having original ideas that have value, more often than not ,comes about from the interaction of disciplinary ways of seeing things.

3. Intelligence is distinct." 

I really enjoyed listening to this lecture it was very refreshing and I agreed with most of it.
Here is the full clip hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

 

Which after watching this I feel this quote just sums up exactly what my emotion is on the matter;