....Do Schools Kill Creativity?,(Ken Robinson)....

I think that the man in the video (Sir Ken Robinson) has an interesting point about formal education undermining creativity. He says that is very difficult (near to impossible) to determine what children these days can do, because it’s difficult to say how the world it’s gonna be in 5 years, so how can we prepare children for what’s coming? Sir Robinson says that imagination it’s one of the most important things to stimulate in schools. He says kids are entitled to be wrong, as adults are not because they lose that capacity as they grow up, in part because mistakes are not allowed in formal schools, thus, creativity and ways to develop and best those mistakes are taken away from the kids.

In my opinion he is right about the kids need to experiment and make mistakes in order to develop themselves as fully functional persons. The role of the teacher is really important in this development, because he has to guide the children through the process of learning.

I think that schools tend to kill creativity, at least in the formal system, so it’s up to creative teachers to avoid that from happening.