Sir Ken Robinson

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Sir Ken Robinson

Sir Ken Robinson is an internationally recognized leader in the development of education, creativity and innovation. This clip of Robinson speaking really made me think about how schools are really preparing us for the future and if they are actually letting us be creative in a way that WE want to be. One thing that really stuck out from the clip was when Robinson said, “ If you’re not prepared to be wrong you will never come up with anything original.” And when I thought about that, he’s actually right. If you know your going to be wrong then you will have a back up answer that you have thought of, but if you don’t know that your wrong what you say could be funny and not original. All out life we grow up trying hard not to make mistakes in life, following other peoples footsteps and not making the same mistakes more than once, but being wrong could be part of creativity right? Robinson said we are educating people out of their creative capacity. What he means by this is that we are constantly being educated to do the right thing and to try and not make mistakes so we have no time to be creative. We grow out of creativity not into. We already have a creative mind as a child and we are experiencing with things as kids but as we age and grow older we tend to grow out of the creativity part and grow into the real world part. 

Robinson said that every country has the same hierarchy of subjects, which I agree with him on. He said that at the top is math and languages in the middle is humanity and at the bottom are arts. 

I agree with him because you also have to take your core classes before you can take your electives like music, art, and drama. As children we teach them from the waist up and as they grow older we focus on their heads Robinson said. Which is true because if you think about it, as children we learn to color in between the lines, and write, and cut out shapes, but as we grow older we focus on what we want to be when we graduate college and learn all the tools that we need to succeed in life. With what we have been taught during the years of learning the core curriculum is that higher talented brilliant people think their not because the thing they were good at in school wasn’t valued.

 In the next 30 years more people will be graduating than the beginning of history and technology has definitely made that happen as well. Robinson also said that now days a degree isn’t good enough you need an MBA, Phd, BA, and so on. 

There are three types of education, 1. Diverse-which is when we think visually about the world. When we think abstractly. 

2. Dynamic-which is interaction of the brain. Intelligence is interactive. We need to be creative because having original ideas that are valued more comes with the interaction of seeing different things. 

And 3. Distinct. How people discover their talent and how they got to be there. Which is future human ecology. Gillan Lynn was a perfect example of this third tear.  This clip “Ted” celebrates the gift of human imagination making something of their imagination.