Stevie Wonder – Superstition Loops

Here’s your link Year 11:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/z8akxlndhjb9akv/Z1myhqXSSF

Determined not to be a body taking a head to meetings…

In the absolutely enthralling link above, Sir Ken Robinson grapples the topic of creativity in schools. It is perhaps the most well articulated rant I have ever heard in favour of the “artsy types”.

He essentially proposes that every educational institution has a hierarchy. Maths at the top. Arts at the bottom. Music and Visual Art is at the top of the Arts food chain. Drama and Dance pick up the crumbs off the floor.

The problem with this, he says, is that it encourages only one particular type of thinker – one type of intelligence, which works brilliantly if you plan on being a college professor, but not if you are built to think with your feet, your hands, or any other creative expression of yourself.

He remarks that “Our educational system has mined our minds for a particular commodity”, and even hypothesises that we are paying for this one dimensional approach to education with the supposed increase in diagnosed AD/HD students.

What if these students don’t have a problem at all?

What if the education system simply does not know how to cater to them?

As Sir Ken expresses, as educators, “our task is to educate their [student’s] whole being. We may not see the future, but they will.”

Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity. At this point, I agree. It needs to change, and I plan to be a part of that change