Schools Kill Creativity

I agree with most of Ken Robinson’s speech. He says many things that I never thought about. For example, he argues that the whole purpose of public education –around the world- is to produce university professors Indeed, he says that according to UNESCO, in the next 30 years, more people will graduate from higher education that since the beginning of History. Amazing, if you ask me.

Also, Robinson points out that public education limits human capacities by establishing a hierarchy of subjects, at the bottom of the hierarchy are the Arts, whereas mathematics and languages are at the top. What is the result of this? A public education that pushes people out of their creative capacities. In my own words –and following his argument, the result is a world full of professionals walking the endless road of specialization and expertise. A world where people are afraid to be wrong, because they have been taught to be so.

Finally, according to Robinson, it’s necessary to educate the whole being of children and let them develop all their capavilities, with no restrictive hierarchy. We must use human creativity and imagination wisely, and rethink our vision of intelligence. Thereby we’ll be creating people with a huge creative capacity, and people will be the architects of a new world, with a new conception of human ecology: That is our only hope for the future, as Robinson believes.