Robson says schools kill creativity

There are three main points in this lecture. The first one is extraordinary evidence of human creativities. The second one is no idea to make a plan for the future. The last one is really extraordinary children capacity that children have their capacities for innovation. Robins gave two examples. Children are not frightened of being wrong. If you are not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original. When they get to be adults, most kids lost capacity. They become frightened to being wrong. Each kid has tremendous talents, but we squander them. Creativity is important in education as literary, we should treat it with the same status.

Before 19th century, there was no public system of education. They came into being to meet the needs of industrialism. Therefore, hierarchy is rooted on two ideas. First, the most useful subjects for work are at the top. Second, is academic ability which has really come to our view of intelligence because university designed the system in their academic image. Robinson also mentioned three things about intelligence: diverse, dynamic and distinct. He gave an example of a famous dancer Gillian. We need to reconstitute our conception of human capacity and also rethink the fundamental principles on which we are education our children.

In my opinion, I agree Robison ‘s point. Most schools are killing children creativity. Like he said that whole word schools usually focus on math and language;they put art or dance behind. Most schools want children study hard to get better score and enter top university. Hence, they ignore to develop children’s intelligence and interest.