TED Talk-Sir Ken Robinson Speech

Throughout every day there is many things a person thinks of during their day. Most things are ordinary thoughts, whats for dinner, whats left to do at home, how much money is in the bank, and such things. Not usually do thoughts come across a person mind that truly make a person think deeply enough to ponder on it for minutes upon time, since the usual thoughts are there and then gone. When listening to Sir Ken Robinson speaking, people are suddenly brought upon the subject of children's creativity being killed by the education system. This type of subject is one that is out of sight out of mind, so when it comes up as a subject, you must think deeply about it because at the base of it their is a truth behind everything that is brought to your mind. People are easily persuaded to believe a speech when it is given to them by someone that seems to know what they are speaking about, therefore this speech has persuaded me to believe that in more ways than one the education system is killing the creativity of our younger generations.

Sir Ken Robinson made many great points that helped persuade his belief that education systems do kill children's creativity. The main point that struck me was the talk of a child that could not concentrate on anything, but when was faced with a drawing lesson she payed complete attention. I know a child that has ADHD and first had I see how hard it is for her to pay attention for this class or that class, but if you give her one thing that she likes such as a computer game or video game she will be completely attentive. To me, this seems as a child's' creativity within what they like. The problem with this is that, video games and such will not teach a child to learn like a school will, but the fact of the matter is, is that at some point or the next every child can be the same whether they are working on a project, playing a game, or just watching television, something makes a child pay attention and let their imagination run.

Another interesting point that Robinson made is that kids take a chance and are not afraid to be wrong. Too often I feel that we as people are taught that you must do everything right, for when you do things wrong is when you are looked down upon. Children do not take right and wrong into consideration, what they feel is how things will be. Children lose their sense of creativity and their careless feelings to be wrong or right as they grow and learn that being wrong is not an opinion in the modern day.

Robinson mentions that Picasso stated, "All children are born as artist..." I believe this statement is very true. Take a child that is given a chance, see how far they take it while take another child that is never given the chance and see how badly they want the chance. Children are always urning to do something else, whether its buy another toy, read another book, eat another snack, when given the chance children will take it much farther than an adult that has taken their chances throughout life. Once a child is taught that everything they want to do, say, or become is not what is in their life line, they become the models their parents wanted and again their creativity is taken away from them.

In this modern world, education has its way of getting into childrens heads and making them believe, be, and want what is put forth to them. If the horizon was open ahead of them, children could let their imaginations run freely to be as creative as they wanted without restraints.