After searching the array of different “TED Talks” on the given website, I came across an interesting discussion I found relatable to myself. Ken Robinson gave a lecture on how schools around the world train students to focus on thinking and being exactly how society wants them to. He explains how we are given guidelines and told to stay within in them, to always do things correctly and to always be right. In his speech given he said, “If you’re not prepared to be wrong you’ll never come up with anything original.” I completely agree with Robinson’s idea that modern day schools are the reason for the future extinction and lack of creativity in today’s youth.
In school, from kindergarten to college, as students we are told to follow sets of rules and regulations in order to be successful. Instead of allowing our creativity to flow freely we are restricted to only expressing it at certain times. Only during classes such as Art and Music are we told to be “creative” and do as we want, never in English or Business are we allowed to try new things or write in a way that is not exactly the correct format. Schools force students to compress creativity and put it away for certain times, in which it eventually all creativity is lost. Even in classes meant to express originality like art we are given suggestions and ideas that then become the guidelines on which we are graded on.
A great a point Ken Robinson made was that he believes that all people are born artists, not made into them later in life. When we are children before we start school, we do not put restrictions on what can be done or how they can be done. Only after becoming “educated” do we start second guessing our natural and original thoughts to fit education standards. This is exactly the stage that begins the dying process of our creativity, only leading to an unoriginal “cookie cutter” society.
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