Creativity and Education

Hi everyone!, today I’m going to talk to you about a video from Ken Robinson, considered an expert on creativity. On this video he manifests how interesting education is for him and also the way this topic is deep-rooted in people as a basis for their lives. The most important themes in his approach are the children capacity of innovation and the great talents that many children have. He points out the relevance of creativity and the need to consider it as important as education. Moreover he says children usually are not afraid of being wrong and make a mistake, this idea doesn’t mean creativity is the same as being wrong, what he really means is that if you don’t take the risk probably you will never create something really original. The main theme is that children start losing their capacity of innovation as they grow up, because educational system considers the mistake in a very negative way and punishes it. After that, he talks about a hierarchy of subjects which cross the countries, mathematic and languages, then humanities and in the bottom the arts, but also within the arts there is a hierarchy too, in general music and art have a higher status than drama and dance. Another theme treated by him is the public education wich seems to be focused on generating university professionals who are disembodied and live in their head. Finally, believes that our only hope is to assume a different conception of human ecology to re-establish the conception of the richness of human capacity and rethink the principle in wich the education of our children is based. I think this is a very interesting proposal, so I invite you to internalize in his tought.