Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity
Before you watch the video, try to answer the following questions.
- What are the most important subjects at school?
- What is literacy?
- What is the purpose of education?
- What is intelligence?
- What is the meaning of MA, BA, PhD, ADHD?
COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS
- Sir Ken Robinson says that there have been 3 themes running through the conference. Which ones are they?
- What are the two topics Robinson wants to talk about?
- What are the three gifts the kings bring to baby Jesus?
- According to Robinson, every education system in the world has the same hierarchy of subjects. Which subjects are at the top and which subjects are at the bottom?
- What’s the hierarchy of subjects within the arts?
- What are the three things Robinson says we know about intelligence?
- What are women better at than men, according to Robinson?
QUESTIONS FOR DEBATE
- Robinson says “If you think of it, children starting school this year will be retiring in 2065. Nobody has a clue—despite all the expertise that’s been on parade for the past four days—what the world will look like in five years’ time. And yet we’re meant to be educating them for it.” How can education prepare children for the future?
- Robinson says “My contention is that creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.” Do you agree? Why?/Why not?
- Robinson argues that “if you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.” Can you illustrate Robinson’s opinión with an example?
- According to Robinson, “the whole purpose of public education throughout the world is to produce university professors.” Do you agree? What should the purpose of public education be?
- Robinson says that “Suddenly, degrees aren’t worth anything. Isn’t that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn’t have a job it’s because you didn’t want one. . . . But now kids with degrees are often heading home to carry on playing video games, because you need an MA where the previous job required a BA, and now you need a PhD for the other.” Is this true in Spain?
I like this video besause he hopes that ypung people can change our education system, because it based on specific things are not important and our creativity, but creativity is what will help us in the future with unexpected events.Our system makes as adults once we lost that ability so we need to change it.
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I've choose this video (Ken Robinson- says school kills creativity) because it had shock me. Is true that the first time that I watched the video I didn't understand half of the things that he was saying. I think that is a really complicated video but at the same time it has got an incredible reason. Is worth it to watch it slowly and to understand each sentence,I really like the filosofy of life and the ideas of this man, for example in the monologue, he laughs of himself more than once, he looks secure and he has introduced some jokes in the discurse to make it more entertaining.
ResponderEliminarI'm agree with Ken Robinson and this made me think that we live in a society where we are prepare like robots, we are born and we are growing up in school... a place where we are teach to be what others want us to be, and the most of cases we resign our real dreams just to don't disappoint our familys for example. It's true that in school the teachers kills our creativity, because for everyone is more important to have a university grade o carrier than the interior happiness oh eachself.
while we are learning those values, we start to try the things just because we are scared of making mistakes. We stop fighting for what we really like or want just to don't fail, without realizing that the worst way of be failing, is to give in.
I took this video because whatever relative to arts I'm interested, and I like how this man, Ken, thinks. I think like him. The arts are so important, cause for example the music. This is so powerful, it makes you feel different feelings, it makes you smile, cry, that moves crowds to help to the world, or different events. The arts are a way for express yourself, and we need it.
ResponderEliminarI think the same that Picasso:all children are born artists but depending how you grow up you can improve it or lose it. And anyone shouldn't lose the creative. The creative and the arts are united by the hand. I just think that the society is doing that we, the students, take a good job, without matter if like you, I mean if you are going to work in something the rest of your life, have to be something where you be happy, you wake up, and think that you work in what you love. There are people, I'm incluided, who love the arts, we need the arts, and we want something about it, but we don't want dissapoint our parents, and it's normal they thing that, cause is so hard to find a arts job, but you can't give up. We need to keep the creative in our minds.
Sara S.
I selected this video because it's about creativity, one of the most important things to me.
ResponderEliminarI must admit that you need watch the video a few times to fully understand it but when you get it, it's a interesting and fun video.
I'm agree with that the arts or music are no less important than the maths. I personally think that music should be one of the most important subjects, no one can live without music.
Society makes us grow up with the idea that if we have skills to be musicians, dancers, or painters we shouldn't chose it because we won't find work. But I think that not all of us should be lawyers or doctors, we must be it what we like to be.
As stated in the video, all the children born with a skill, and we should help them to develop it instead of stop them and break their dreams saying them that they won't find any job.
I hope that in the future we wont think like that, and someday the music or the dance will be as important as the chemistry or the maths.
We can change this.