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Do Schools Kill Creativity?
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5 thoughts on “Do Schools Kill Creativity?”
Need to watch this once a month!!! (I tried to get my principal to share it at a faculty meeting…funny he didn’t want to…)
with love,
Laurie
He is great! I’m reading his book “Out of Our Minds” for my grad school right now. Everyone should read it! He also has two talks on Ted.com (2006 and 2010, I believe). They are also good! Another great read is “Orbiting the Giant Hairball” by Gordon MacKenzie. It has a similar theme about creativity and also mentions schools killing it.
Much of what Sir Ken Robinson said in the 2010 TedTalk applies to our CI Revolution in FL pedagogy:
“Reform is no use anymore, because that’s simply improving a broken model. What we need — and the word’s been used many times during the course of the past few days — is not evolution, but a revolution in education. This has to be transformed into something else.”
“there are ideas that all of us are enthralled to, which we simply take for granted as the natural order of things, the way things are. And many of our ideas have been formed, not to meet the circumstances of this century, but to cope with the circumstances of previous centuries. But our minds are still hypnotized by them, and we have to disenthrall ourselves of some of them.”
– E.g. teaching grammar and vocabulary lists!!!
“human communities depend upon a diversity of talent, not a singular conception of ability. . . At the heart of the challenge is to reconstitute our sense of ability and of intelligence.”
The other big issue is conformity. We have built our education systems on the model of fast food. One is fast food, where everything is standardized. The other are things like Zagat and Michelin restaurants, where everything is not standardized, they’re customized to local circumstances. And we have sold ourselves into a fast food model of education, and it’s impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies.” – very Krashen-esque 😉
“So I think we have to change metaphors. We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and conformity and batching people. We have to move to a model that is based more on principles of agriculture. We have to recognize that human flourishing is not a mechanical process; it’s an organic process. And you cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do, like a farmer, is create the conditions under which they will begin to flourish.”
– We CI Teachers are FARMERS!!! Ben is always saying this.
“It’s about customizing to your circumstances and personalizing education to the people you’re actually teaching. And doing that, I think, is the answer to the future because it’s not about scaling a new solution; it’s about creating a movement in education in which people develop their own solutions, but with external support based on a personalized curriculum.”
– Customization & personalization!
He sounds great but he’s also full of b.s. He’s never been in a classroom, yet pronounces on teaching. Some of his ideas– e.g. that every 10 years all jobs will be totally different– are ludicrous and wrong. But he has got a point re: schools not caring about creativity.
What’s his position on testing and teacher evaluation? Anyone know?