Ken Robinson: Schools Killing Creativity and Escaping Education’s Death Valley In this “TED talk” segment by Ken Robinson, an English born professor explains why the educational system in the U.S. is remaining stagnant and unfulfilling to students needs. Robinson begins his arguments by stating, “The educational system of the United States has been accompanied by the same curriculum for the past 125 years”. Schools are unknowingly turning creative minds into memorizing machines to meet the criteria of acceptance for colleges across the nation. The educational system has labeled failure as inexcusable; in return generations of children become afraid to take a risk. Robinson implies, “Failure is essential to success, when a student looks at failure as no option, they neglect their ability to grow and think for themselves”. In many parts of the nation, high school dropouts exceed the number of graduates by a 60% margin. Robinson also states that, “the current educational system is robbing students of the creative minds we are all born with”. Research proves your brain’s imaginative and creative lobes are most active during childhood years. Replacing this creativity with standardization, results in a disengaged classroom. …show more content…
Within minority populations as much of 80% of students will fail to obtain a high school diploma. Unaccounted for in these statistics are students who are disengaged in the classroom, and will get nothing out of it. America stands as a global leader in money spent on education, yet we are displacing this investment of would-be graduates within our economy, to even more money spent on repairing the result of a dropout generation. An estimated one trillion dollars of revenue within our economy could be salvaged if we could take the nationwide 60% and reduce this number to