14. Schools Killing Creativity

http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html

     This is a wonderful video,from 2006, about a speaker named Ken Robinson.  He talks about how the school system in every country has Art the bottom subject.  Mr. Robinson discusses that schools kill creativity such as dancing, drawing and music.  He goes to to say that teachers are killing the creativity at a young age by telling students they will never become a dancer, artist or musician so they should just focus on academics because they will not be able to get a job any other way.  Then he goes on to talk about a women, who met who later became a famous choreographer, that told him her teacher said something was wrong with her and she needed to go see a specialist.  So when her mother took her to see a specialist he told her mother that nothing is wrong with her but that she is a dancer and she needs to go to a dancing school.  Once her mother put her in a dancing school she was immensely happy and then she later on became a famous multimillionaire who is known for some of the best performances in history.

       I really loved this video because I agree that creativity is killed in schools.  When I was growing up all I wanted to do, as a profession, was to be a video game tester.  But year after year my family, who were teachers, and my teachers said that I would never get a job like that so I needed to focus on my favorite subjects such as math and social studies.  To this day I still play video games and wish I could be a game tester, but I would have to move to California and not see my family which is also saddening.  Luckily enough though I found another dream of becoming a teacher and I plan to incorporate the arts, technology and games into my classroom for children to learn.  I believe children learn best when they are having fun and when they are having fun they never realize that they are learning something new.