In 1984, a conference was held where technology, entertainment, and design converged. This brought about the creation of the TED Platform. TED Talk has been well known for sharing “ideas worth spreading,” just as their motto states. They live up to this reputation through speeches such as Sir Ken Robinson’s talk about schools killing creativity. However, what made Robinson’s speech worth spreading? Sir Ken Robinson’s talk became so popular because of the general acceptance of school corruption throughout society. This struck people to respond with their own personal viewpoints of school systems. Although, Robinson’s points were similar in many ways to my own, his approach towards solutions could have been more elaborate.
To give a detailed break down, it is best to begin with how Robinson’s speech became so popular. Obviously, speeches become popular when they are favorable, or sweet sounding to the audiences ears. However, what made Robinson’s speech so favorable? His speech was liked so much because he addressed schools limiting students abilities (Robinson). It has been well known that people are not completely satisfied with the current educational system, so it is easy to agree with his points. People also have a tendency to want to complain about something, so his speech gave them license to complain.
However, the general acceptance of his topic was not the only reason why it was liked. Robinson gave very well-thought and respectable points during his speech. For example, Robinson addressed schooling systems killing creativity by teaching people to be afraid of being wrong. As Robinson pointed out, “children are not afraid to tackle problems they are unfamiliar with.” He explained through a story about when a kid in a pla...
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...ive, they all generally agreed with his statements. As a result, his TED talk video became very popular and obtained over twenty-five million views (Robinson). His funny sense of humor, mesmerizing accent, and well thought supporting details allowed nearly everyone to agree with his speech, which is not an easy task. Sir Ken Robinson is a character that truly represents TED Talk’s “ideas worth spreading.”
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Along with a strong appeal to logos, the speaker uses a sentimental tone to support the points that we stopped kids from doing creative things. From his personal experience, Robinson maintains, “When you were kids, things you liked, on the grounds that you would never get a job.” The essence of the speaker’s argument is that we only encourage our kids for doing something worthy. When we say that things they like to do have no scope, this emotionally affects kids. Ultimately, guardian just put the weight of their ambitions on the delicate shoulders of their kids. This builds the pressure on students to meets with the expectations of their guardian. Therefore, one should understand that every child has his own specialty, potential, and liking.
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up becoming one of the most inspiring speeches of all time and served as a catalyst for the Civil Rights
What they neglect to realize is that most problems are unpredictable. So when a student faces a challenge not taught in the classroom, they will be incapable of solving or getting out of the situation. Once the formula does not work, creativity becomes a necessity. Some even fear the mere thought of imagination, since new possibilities open up the risk of failure or not being accepted. Students hold back their curiosity once they realize that teachers are unwilling to answer their question if it differs even slightly from the curriculum. These are the exact reasons our youth’s power to create fades. The value of creativity is beyond words; our society thrives on innovation. Take the stereotypical example of Bill Gates—he became a billionaire with the help of his creative thinking. So why would creativity not be the heart of our education system? Simply because there is not enough time or enough people willing to put in the
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He opened my eyes to really think about how the education system is taking away children’s creativity. School systems are so focused on being college and career ready, they decapitating the creative capacities students have. I have observed personally how teachers will stigmatize mistakes. When observing a classroom and student does an art project, but the teacher takes points away because it was not what they imagined what the picture should be of. At schools today, math and language are offered at least an hour every day, but students are lucky to get an art or music class for thirty minutes each week. I think that all the tests put on teachers to prepare students has caused the breaking away from creativity even more. Teachers are so worried about getting the mandatory information to the class that they forget about the creative side of teaching. Ken Roberson explains it in a way that gets people engaged and listening about this situation without them realizing at what extent. Just like Sir Ken Roberson, I believe it is our job to educate all parts of a person to help impact the future. It is my duty to find ways to motivate my students in the classroom to be creative and create a future of people that is gaining more than head
Firstly, he uses humor to begin his TED talk while also grasping the audience’s attention. One story that he told in the beginning, is about a six-year-old girl who never payed attention in drawing class but one day she decided she would. The teacher shocked at the site of this, goes over to ask the young girl what she was illustrating and the girl replied and said, “I’m drawing a picture of God.” The teacher tells her that no one knows what God looks like but the girl opposes to this and says, “They will in a minute.” He then goes on to tell the story of when he was a college professor and what he observed, regarding creativity, during his career. Robinson passionately believes that “we don’t grow into creativity; we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out of it (Do Schools Kill Creativity).” Therefore, while working as a professor at the university, he noticed that many professors are one sided by placing all their focus on one perspective of a subject without seeing it any other way. Robinson asserts this claim when he states, “There 's something curious about professors in my experience -- not all of them, but typically, they live in their heads. They live up there, and slightly to one side (Do Schools Kill Creativity).” It is humorous to think that professors, metaphorically, “live in their heads” yet, it patently reveals the fact that public education systems tend to be one sided when creating a standard curriculum. Students who have outstanding creativity skills will never be recognized for their talent because teachers and professors fear that changing the system will diminish the academic success of students. Through his use of pathos, he persuades the audience of how educators act in regards to the implementation of creativity in public school
By using the topic of public school systems disregarding creativity he can persuade the viewers to want to take action. In the middle of his speech, he points out how every education system in the entire world is based on a ranking of subjects. When Robinson talked about the rankings of classes he had two main topics that he made sure to talk about. One being, the ranking is based on the most useful subjects are at the top of the list. He brought up how children have driven away from certain activities that they enjoyed because were raised to believe that those businesses will not create a successful job in the future. For example, if a child were gifted at playing the guitar and liked it, he or she would be guided away from the activity because there is no promise to have a successful career as a musician. This point was followed up by talking about how the entire rankings are based on one's academic ability. The school knowledge has come to take over our view of what intelligence is because universities are designed with just one image in mind. He makes this clear when he says Because of this child who are gifted and talented are being turned away by multiple colleges because the only thing they excelled at in school, did not matter. This leads to the audience to believe in all of the aggravating points Sir Ken
Using creativity in the classroom will create strong students and help better them for the future. Now, students are just being taught to what is on the test. They do not learn how to be leaders, how to work in groups, people skills, or how to use their mind that is not just for memorizing the information. “The challenge now is to transform education systems into something better suited to the real needs of the 21st century. At the heart of this transformation there has to be a radically different view of human intelligence and of creativity” (Robinson K., 2011, p. 14). Using creativity and technology will allow the students to enjoy learning more. I noticed in my final project, that other students who weren’t education majors, saw this problem too. Many of them did not see creativity in a classroom, they felt that the school system was creating them into robots that taught them all how to think a certain way. Ken Robinson feels that, “we don’t grow into creativity; we grow out of it. Often we are educated out of it.” (2011, p. 49). Teachers should be teaching students how to be creative, and how to think on their own, so students will be able to go far in the future and succeed in any job they
Standardization and creative thinking have always had a unique relationship because of how both deal with the ways that the public looks at the world. Standardization can be defined as the process of making something uphold a certain level. Creative thinking has always been thought of as a different way for people to learn and grasp information that might be understood in a more traditional learning method. “Project Classroom Makeover,” written by Cathy Davidson, discusses how standardization has a large impact on individuals who see the world from a creative way of thinking. The idea of standardizing education is one that has caused much worry in few people’s eyes because of the different ways that individuals learn and absorb knowledge. People
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