Sir Ken Robinson - TED: Education affects Creativity (20 min)
http://blog.ted.com/2006/06/sir_ken_robinso.php
This talk was from the 2006 TED conference by Sir Ken Robinson, both audio & video is available. Through entertaining & wonderful stories, he describes why we should treat Creativity as much importance as literacy.
Education was meant to take us into a future we can’t grasp, but our education has been:
- Mining only one side of our mind
- Encourage not to learn from mistakes by stigmatizing mistakes
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Creativity: Not fearing to be wrong
All children have great talent & innovation, but we crush their creativity, ruthlessly. Now, we should be treated Creativity as important as literacy.
Young kids are willing take a chance on things they don’t know & they are not frightened of being wrong. If you are not prepared to be wrong, you will never create anything original.
Unfortunately we run our education systems & our companies to stigmatize mistake & making it the worst thing you can do.
'All children are born artist, the problem is to remain artists as they grow up'. If we don’t grow into creativity, we will grow/educated out away from creativity.
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Hierarchy of Education systems
Every education in the world has a hierarchy in subjects:
-> From the waist up
-> The head
-> Left side of the brain (Analytics)
But why?
If we consider who wins & succeeds at our education systems?
We can conclude the purpose of the education system is to produce University professors
Although suddenly a degree is not worth anything; when jobs previously need a BA now need a MA or PhD. This is a process of education inflation and the structure of education is shifting.
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Education limiting Intelligence?
We know 3 things about intelligence
1. Diverse: we think in many different ways, such as visually, in sound, abstractly …
2. Dynamic: Intelligence & creativity are interactive, and not in silos
3. Distinct: Unique
But we only consider intelligence through our education system.
Our education systems was invent in the 19th centuries to meet the need of industrialism. The hierarchy was driven by 2 ideas:
1. The most useful for work subject are at the top.
People get steer away from Music & Arts, but now profoundly mistaken; the arts & creativity is now drives the world.
2. Academic ability: dominates our view of intelligence.
Universities design the system in their image & the whole system of education in the world revolved around university entrance.
The consequence is that many highly talented & brilliant people think they are not; Because their talents they are good at wasn’t valued or even stigmatized.
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Sir Robinson’s key message:
Our education system has been only mining our minds for particular commodity (left brain); But in the future this won’t suffice.
Our hope for the future, it’s to start to reconsider of the concept of intelligence & the fundamental principle ways of educating our children.
We have to be careful of using our gift of creativity wisely. By seeing our creativity for the richness they are & seeing out children for the hope that they are.
Our task is to educate their whole being & our job is for them to make something for it for their future.
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Key Statements:
This talk was from the 2006 TED conference by Sir Ken Robinson, both audio & video is available. Through entertaining & wonderful stories, he describes why we should treat Creativity as much importance as literacy.
Education was meant to take us into a future we can’t grasp, but our education has been:
- Mining only one side of our mind
- Encourage not to learn from mistakes by stigmatizing mistakes
---------------------------------------------------------
Creativity: Not fearing to be wrong
All children have great talent & innovation, but we crush their creativity, ruthlessly. Now, we should be treated Creativity as important as literacy.
Young kids are willing take a chance on things they don’t know & they are not frightened of being wrong. If you are not prepared to be wrong, you will never create anything original.
Unfortunately we run our education systems & our companies to stigmatize mistake & making it the worst thing you can do.
'All children are born artist, the problem is to remain artists as they grow up'. If we don’t grow into creativity, we will grow/educated out away from creativity.
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Hierarchy of Education systems
Every education in the world has a hierarchy in subjects:
Math & Science, Language, Humanities, Arts
As children grow up, we educate them-> From the waist up
-> The head
-> Left side of the brain (Analytics)
But why?
If we consider who wins & succeeds at our education systems?
We can conclude the purpose of the education system is to produce University professors
Although suddenly a degree is not worth anything; when jobs previously need a BA now need a MA or PhD. This is a process of education inflation and the structure of education is shifting.
---------------------------------------------------------
Education limiting Intelligence?
We know 3 things about intelligence
1. Diverse: we think in many different ways, such as visually, in sound, abstractly …
2. Dynamic: Intelligence & creativity are interactive, and not in silos
3. Distinct: Unique
But we only consider intelligence through our education system.
Our education systems was invent in the 19th centuries to meet the need of industrialism. The hierarchy was driven by 2 ideas:
1. The most useful for work subject are at the top.
People get steer away from Music & Arts, but now profoundly mistaken; the arts & creativity is now drives the world.
2. Academic ability: dominates our view of intelligence.
Universities design the system in their image & the whole system of education in the world revolved around university entrance.
The consequence is that many highly talented & brilliant people think they are not; Because their talents they are good at wasn’t valued or even stigmatized.
---------------------------------------------------------
Sir Robinson’s key message:
Our education system has been only mining our minds for particular commodity (left brain); But in the future this won’t suffice.
Our hope for the future, it’s to start to reconsider of the concept of intelligence & the fundamental principle ways of educating our children.
“If all insects disappeared on earth, all life on earth will end;
If all human beings disappeared on earth, all life on earth will flourish.”
If all human beings disappeared on earth, all life on earth will flourish.”
We have to be careful of using our gift of creativity wisely. By seeing our creativity for the richness they are & seeing out children for the hope that they are.
Our task is to educate their whole being & our job is for them to make something for it for their future.
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Key Statements:
- Creativity is the process of having & taking a chance on original ideas that have value; many times come from the interaction of different way of seeing things.
- Now, we should be treated Creativity as important as literacy.
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