Wednesday, June 24, 2009
I think that Sir Ken Robinson has exposed an interesting subject by speaking of the different educational systems existing as well as of the requirements of today’s society focusing especially in the reinforcement of the academicals capacities.
We don't think about this subject very often; in addition, if we compare our Chilean educational system with the other Latin-American countries, it's quite obvious that it has decreased its quality over the last years. Thus, if we think about the issue of loosing creativity according to the standards imposed by today’s reality through our educational institutions, it seems to be that the solution for that problem has not been found yet.
It's true that children have a wonderful creativity considering that at that age imagination can lead us to worlds without bordering where we can do whatever we want. In my opinion, creativity has to be encouraged at any age. But seems to be that real life cuts our wings and it does not let us develop us as talented people. When I say talented people I mean innovative persons able to solve any problem that they could face in the future. Nonetheless, we know that our traditional education is in crisis because of the wide difference between public and private schools, and thinking of a possibility of having an alternative educational system where the main point is the development of artistic abilities is a total utopia. A utopia because it might require a deep change in our society; what I think involves the acceptance of innovative or creative people as the starting point. But honestly, we are so used to everything in the way that we already know it, that doing such a change would be impossible. We are immerse in a vicious circle...
We don't think about this subject very often; in addition, if we compare our Chilean educational system with the other Latin-American countries, it's quite obvious that it has decreased its quality over the last years. Thus, if we think about the issue of loosing creativity according to the standards imposed by today’s reality through our educational institutions, it seems to be that the solution for that problem has not been found yet.
It's true that children have a wonderful creativity considering that at that age imagination can lead us to worlds without bordering where we can do whatever we want. In my opinion, creativity has to be encouraged at any age. But seems to be that real life cuts our wings and it does not let us develop us as talented people. When I say talented people I mean innovative persons able to solve any problem that they could face in the future. Nonetheless, we know that our traditional education is in crisis because of the wide difference between public and private schools, and thinking of a possibility of having an alternative educational system where the main point is the development of artistic abilities is a total utopia. A utopia because it might require a deep change in our society; what I think involves the acceptance of innovative or creative people as the starting point. But honestly, we are so used to everything in the way that we already know it, that doing such a change would be impossible. We are immerse in a vicious circle...
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Silvia,
Yes, but it’s us, anthropologists, sociologists, teachers who have to manage to breach that vicious circle and make a change, make the difference.
Very insightful post.
"Do Schools Kill Creativity?"
Publicado por Small Fable en 11:16 PM
I think that Sir Ken Robinson has PRESENTED an interesting subject by speaking of the different educational systems existing as well as of the requirements of today’s society, focusing especially ON the reinforcement of the academic(/) capacities.
We don't think about this subject very often; in addition, if we compare our Chilean educational system with the other Latin-American countries, it's quite obvious that OURS has decreased its quality over the last years. Thus, if we think about the issue of lOsing creativity according to the standards imposed by today’s reality through our educational institutions, it seems to be that the solution for that problem has not been found yet.
It's true that children have a wonderful creativity considering that at thEIR age imagination can lead THEM to worlds without bordering/BOUNDARIES where THEY can do whatever THEY want. In my opinion, creativity has to be encouraged at any age. But IT seems to be that real life cuts our wings/DISCOURAGES US and it does not let us develop (/) as talented people. When I say talented people I mean innovative persons able to solve any problem that they could face/MAY COME ACROSS in the future. Nonetheless, we know that our traditional education is in crisis because of the wide difference between public and private schools, and thinking of a possibility of having an alternative educational system where the main point is the development of artistic abilities is a total utopia. A utopia because it might require a deep change in our society; what I think involves the acceptance of innovative or creative people as the starting point. But honestly, we are so used to everything in the way that we already know it, that doing such a change would be impossible. We are immerse in a vicious circle...
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