Phl 458 Creative Spark Talk Analysis
Creative Spark Talk Analysis
Annetta Brent
PHL/458
April 9, 2015
Andre Samuel, PH.D.
Creative Spark Talk Analysis
This paper will reflect on “How schools kill creativity” by Sir Ken Robinson. Mr. Robinson is an educator and makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures rather than undermines creativity.
Mr. Robinson led the British government 's 1998 advisory committee on creative and cultural education, a massive inquiry into the significance of creativity in the educational system and the economy, and was knighted in 2003 for his achievements. His 2009 book, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything, is a New York Times bestseller and has been translated into 21 languages. A 10th anniversary edition of his classic work on creativity and innovation, Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative, was published in 2011. His latest book, Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life, was be published by Viking in …show more content…
At the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and at the bottom are the arts. He says there is a hierarchy within arts. Art and music are normally given a higher status in schools than drama and dance. There isn 't an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. According to Robinson, “math is very important, but so is dance. Children dance all the time if they 're allowed to, we all do. Truthfully, what happens is, as children grow up, we start to educate them progressively from the waist up? And then we focus on their heads”. Our education system has mined our minds in the way that we strip-mine the earth: for a particular commodity. And for the future, it won 't serve us. We have to rethink the fundamental principles on which we 're educating our children ("Ted.com",
Annetta Brent
PHL/458
April 9, 2015
Andre Samuel, PH.D.
Creative Spark Talk Analysis
This paper will reflect on “How schools kill creativity” by Sir Ken Robinson. Mr. Robinson is an educator and makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures rather than undermines creativity.
Mr. Robinson led the British government 's 1998 advisory committee on creative and cultural education, a massive inquiry into the significance of creativity in the educational system and the economy, and was knighted in 2003 for his achievements. His 2009 book, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything, is a New York Times bestseller and has been translated into 21 languages. A 10th anniversary edition of his classic work on creativity and innovation, Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative, was published in 2011. His latest book, Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life, was be published by Viking in …show more content…
At the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and at the bottom are the arts. He says there is a hierarchy within arts. Art and music are normally given a higher status in schools than drama and dance. There isn 't an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. According to Robinson, “math is very important, but so is dance. Children dance all the time if they 're allowed to, we all do. Truthfully, what happens is, as children grow up, we start to educate them progressively from the waist up? And then we focus on their heads”. Our education system has mined our minds in the way that we strip-mine the earth: for a particular commodity. And for the future, it won 't serve us. We have to rethink the fundamental principles on which we 're educating our children ("Ted.com",