Sir Ken Robinson TEDtalk: Creativity In Education

Creativity In Education

Sir Ken Robinson's TEDtalk dealt with what he thought matters on the format of today's education. What really matters to Sir Robinson is the need for encouragement of creativity in school education. He commented on how children are born with their own individual creativity, and how they are a model example of how people should express themselves in society today. Sir Robinson said that people are afraid of being proven wrong, therefore they don't try to create something new and ambitious, but something easy and aged. Children, however, are not scared of being proven wrong, and this enables their minds to think of endless possibilities and inventions that scientists and professors could only dream of creating.

Sir Ken Robinson also had very distinct opinions similar to those of Daniel Pink. That is, the fact that right-brainers, those creative students, should make their way to the top of the educational hierarchy. What made Sir Robinson's talk so meaningful was the fact that he was, at one time, one of those school professors who were strictly left-brained. This allowed him to appeal to those dominant in either side of the brain, because he spoke from experience rather than statistics or anecdotes of others' experiences.

Something any speaker needs during a talk is the crowd's undivided attention. Sir Robinson did an excellent job in doing so by using humor as a way to keep the audience attentive right before he said something he thought to be important. He attempted and succeeded in being "remarkable" because, although the topic might be shaky for some people, he presented himself with such confidence in his opinions it made others want to agree with his views.

My favorite topic of Robinson's during the talk was when he mentioned that children are taught out of creativity through school, because the schools' main focus is mathematics and science. I feel like students at Arapahoe have more of a chance to maintain their creativity because it is a much more artistically aware school than most.

So what matters to Sir Ken Robinson? What matters is the need to go into a new age of creativity, in which those who are right-brained are dominant. It will be up to the new young generation to nourish their creativity and allow their amazing ideas become a reality.