Creativity Tedtalk Analysis

In this Tedtalk video the speaker, Ken Robinson, talks about creativity and how it should lead to the future of education. He describes how education today is structured for big industry. All of the highly important classes are structured around language and mathematics. He also states the way education destroys creativity. We are punished for wrong answers and awarded for right answers. This makes us more afraid of being wrong and less likely to make an attempt if we feel we may be wrong. Children are born willing to take chances and explore creativity. Over the years we loose this because every time we do something seen as wrong we are corrected. Along with the correction we adept and stop doing what makes us unique. He also described the 3 parts to intelligence; diverse, dynamic,
We should strive to improve this ability. As a child everything seams limitless. Then we grow old to find we are limiting ourselves more and more each day. Mr. Robinson uses a story of a little girl that is doing bad at school because she can't sit still. At first it's seen as a disorder. To me this is pitiful. Her brain uses a different technique to learn and she is seen as a bad student because of this? The touching part is that the teacher identified this and recommended dancing classes. Now she is very happy and can flourish with her natural creativity. Little actions towards growing our natural mindset can go a long way.

In conclusion I thought this video was very informative. It opens up ideas on how we should go about the future. Creativity is one of our most important tools and we should never loose it. Education should strengthen rather than destroy this wonderful gift. Grade school should create different paths for students to take which work on their abilities. This would bring very bright minds out to the world and make us grow as people. I believe this is the future. We should change paths and make this concept a