Schools Kill Creativity
Schools kill creativity
Good morning Everyone! My name is Chanakya and I am here to talk on the topic how Schools kill Creativity! Let’s Talk about Human creativity first . The extraordinary evidence of human creativity is in all of the presentations that we 've had and in all of the people here. Just the variety of it and the range of it. The second is that it 's put us in a place where we have no idea what 's going to happen, in terms of the future. No idea how this may play out. I have an interest in education -- actually, what I find is everybody has an interest in education. Don 't you? I find this very interesting. But if you ask about their education, they pin you to the wall. Because it 's one of those things that goes deep with people, am I right? Like religion, and money and other things. I have a big interest in education, and I think we all do. We have a huge vested interest in it, partly because it 's education that’s meant to take us into this future that we can 't grasp. If you think of it, children starting school this year will be retiring in 2073. Nobody has any idea what the world will look like in five years ' time. And yet we 're meant to be educating them for it. So the unpredictability, I think, is extraordinary. And the third part of this is that we 've all agreed, nonetheless, on the really extraordinary capacities that children have -- their capacities for innovation. All the students over here did a fabulous job and what you have here is people with extraordinary dedication who found a talent and are applying it . My contention is, all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly. So I want to talk about education and I want to talk about creativity. My contention is that creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status. I heard a great story recently -- I love telling it -- of a little girl who was in a drawing lesson. She was six and she was at the back,
Good morning Everyone! My name is Chanakya and I am here to talk on the topic how Schools kill Creativity! Let’s Talk about Human creativity first . The extraordinary evidence of human creativity is in all of the presentations that we 've had and in all of the people here. Just the variety of it and the range of it. The second is that it 's put us in a place where we have no idea what 's going to happen, in terms of the future. No idea how this may play out. I have an interest in education -- actually, what I find is everybody has an interest in education. Don 't you? I find this very interesting. But if you ask about their education, they pin you to the wall. Because it 's one of those things that goes deep with people, am I right? Like religion, and money and other things. I have a big interest in education, and I think we all do. We have a huge vested interest in it, partly because it 's education that’s meant to take us into this future that we can 't grasp. If you think of it, children starting school this year will be retiring in 2073. Nobody has any idea what the world will look like in five years ' time. And yet we 're meant to be educating them for it. So the unpredictability, I think, is extraordinary. And the third part of this is that we 've all agreed, nonetheless, on the really extraordinary capacities that children have -- their capacities for innovation. All the students over here did a fabulous job and what you have here is people with extraordinary dedication who found a talent and are applying it . My contention is, all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly. So I want to talk about education and I want to talk about creativity. My contention is that creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status. I heard a great story recently -- I love telling it -- of a little girl who was in a drawing lesson. She was six and she was at the back,