Sir Ken Robinson, Creativity in Schools

It was today that we watched a video in class that featured a certain Sir Ken Robinson and his guest lecture at a convention on Creativity in our school, or more so the lack of it. Among his sense of humour, which a few of my peers, myself being one of them, seemed to enjoy, he still brought up that of many key points that people seem to have been brushing off over the past few years. The biggest point that he brought up was that schools are still training kids to either be mindless drones in, a now broken, industrial machine, or bodyless university professors. He said that he though that schools should be more creatively stimulating for both body and mind, and not tell a child that they can't accomplish.

My opinion on this matter is that of something I have been thinking about for a couple years now. I personally enjoy writing to the extent that I plan on pursuing a career in it, but my school offers little to nothing in the studies of creative writing. We do have a creative writing course, but that's only one course, and our standard english courses really don't seem to cover everything that they should. It truly bugs me that people are still being trained to be single minded in their pursuit of careers, even in todays economic faulties and downfalls. Our youth, me being included, should not be trained, but rather enlightened in our current society. Training is telling someone to do something and how to do it. Enlightening is merely showing people that the option or path ios there and that there is a way to get there. Even in today's society that is more than fully aware of the problems with conformity, is still pleeding to it's people to conform to a system that has truly broken down. Anywho, I must conclude this post for now, and should have another post, possibly continuing this up soon.