Oct. 7, 2011 we watched a video called "Schools kill creativity" by Sir Ken Robinson. This video became my new inspiration to achieve and strive for greatness. I 100% agree that schools are educating children out of creativity. One time while I was volunteering in a kindergarten classroom last spring the teacher told the children to cut out the circles on the page she had given to them. Most children cut around the circle however there was this one boy who cut out the circles but cut them out in squares rather then cutting around them. Now this was not wrong since the teacher did not say how to cut them out. She just assumed that all children would understand to cut the circles out in a circle. She seem frustrated with the little boy and made him stay behind and do the activity "correctly." This boy just had a different way of thinking. And I don't believe he should felt bad about doing it differently. This video made me think of that experience and made me realize that perhaps something in the school system should be changed and being different(creative) should be encouraged and not frowned upon. I have plenty of friends that don't even know what their talent is or even what they are interested in. This astonishes me! And after this video I may understand why some people have such a hard time figuring out what the want to do in their life, want they want to accomplish. Now I am not saying it is all the schools fault, but I do believe it is one of the primarily reasons. Schools as Sir Ken Robinson says gears us to "Mathematics and languages then humanities at the bottom the arts." This is ironic in the sense that I believe, if you are not doing what you love to do, you will not be successful and/or happy. But in school we are taught that this is acceptable, as long as we are "making the money." A lot of people I see loosing their way, and not being happy and content with their life and I think a bit part of that reason is because they were not giving the chance to learn what they love to do. School is like another home for children, and I believe they should get to experience everything. Teachers are like another parent for children and we should be helping them reach and achieve their goals, now matter what that should be. We all have the ability to achieve greatness that makes us truly happy.
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"If you are not prepard to be wrong, you will never be original" -Sir Ken Robinson
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