I loved this TED talk at Monterey in 2006 by Sir Ken Robinson on Do schools kill creativity?, but its already 2:55 in Moscow and I gotta get some sleep before my swimming session at 9:20. So in case you are also short on time and cant watch his 20 minute video, I put down the most remarkable phrases. I would love to share it with you. Here it goes... TedX California 2006 Monterey “Do schools kill creativity?” Sir Ken Robinson If you are not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original. We are running businesses this way, we stigmatize mistakes Mistakes are the worst things you can make If we are not prepared to be wrong, we are educating people out of their creative capacities “All children are born artists; the problem is to remain the artists as we grow up.” I believe this passion that we don’t grow into creativity, we grow out of it or rather we get educated at it. There is something curious about professors. It’s not all of them, but typically they live in their heads, they live up there and slightly to one side, they are disembodied in a kind of literal way. Look at their body as a form of transport for their heads. It’s only getting their head to meetings. If you want real evidence of out of body experiences by the way, get yourself to residential conference of senior academics and pop into a discoteque on final night. There you’ll see it. Our education system is predicated on the idea of academic ability It’s a process of academic inflation Philosophical: if a tree falls in a forest and nobody hears it, did it happen? If a man speaks his mind in a forest and no woman hears it, is he still wrong? Epiphany – how people discover their talent. ADHD – learning disorder, one can’t concentrate, fidgeting “Jinnie isn’t sick, she’s a dancer. Take her to a dance school People, who couldn’t sit still, people who had to move to think. … somebody could have put her on medication and tell her to come down. I believe, our only hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology, one in which we start to reconstitute our conception of human capacity. Our education system has mind our minds in a way that we stripmind (?) the Earth for particular commodity and for the future it won’t service. We have to rethink the fundamental principles on which we are educating our children “If all the insects were to disappear from the Earth, within 50 years all life on Earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the Earth, within 50 years all forms of life would flourish”. What TED celebrates is the gift of human imagination. We have to be careful now that we use this gift wisely and that we avert some of the scenarios that we’ve talked about. And the only way we’ll do it is by seeing our creative capacities for the richness they are and seeing our children for the hope that they are. And our task is to educate our whole being so they can face this future. By the way, we may not see this future, but they will. And our job is to help them make something of it. Thank you very much.
Posted on: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 23:57:06 +0000
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