Sir Ken Robinson, who is always interested in education as everyone, gave us a unique point of view on Ted talks: Schools kill creativity.
There are 3 themes in his lecture: First, humans hold the variety of and range of creativity. Second, as we are uncertain of the future, we have the obligation to educate children so as to be ready to the challenge of the future. Third, every child holds an extraordinary creativity which is likely to be buried by adults. As they are not afraid of making mistakes, they can do something creative. But as children grow up, they lose their creativity gradually and become timid. So the author holds the idea we should help to keep the children's creativity. Ken Robinson considers that schools kill creativity. He found it surprisingly that every state's education system share the same pyramid of subjects, even the pyramid exists in the interior of the subject. The purpose of global public education is to train college professor, but they are just a form of lifestyle. Since the 19th century, for meeting the demand for industrialization, the education which regards fostering academic ability as the only idea came to emerge. The foundation of the pyramid is rooted in two important methods: utility and academic ability. As in the next 30 years, the number of the population of graduates is the most, a new phenomenon will occur: degrees aren't worth anything. So, we'd better recreate our view of intelligence, it consists of diversity, dynamic and distinction. The author thinks our only hope of the future is to create a new conception of human ecology, only by doing this, can we know about the abundance of human ability.
As the author said: \"We have to rethink the fundamental principles on which we're educating our children\". The traditional education kills creativity. Our job is to
help children to overcome challenges, not to bury their creativity.
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