Sunday, June 6, 2010

Schools Kill Creativity

"If your not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original."  When Ken Robinson said this in his speech I found it to be very true.  Sometimes for myself I get nerves and worried about presenting a new project especially if its presented in a different format then the one my professor is used to seeing. Because I don't want my ideas/creativity to be shot down and sometimes its just wrong because it wasn't formatted the way the professor wanted it to be.  I agree that in this society we are educated away from creativity, its just the same as someone telling me that getting my degree in communications is a waste of my time because to get a job in today's world you need a degree in business or in some sort of science.  But I chose this field because you can be creative and you wouldn't always have a routine work schedule, you can broaden your horizons and actually challenge yourself because with communications you are constantly learning new things such as different social media and I think its amazing.  But according to Ken Robinson sounds like we all just have to go with it, see what happens and not be worried about being wrong because people make mistakes and sometimes a mistake can turn into an accomplishment.  

5 comments:

  1. True. I'm constantly amazed by things people come up with. An "OMG, why didn't I think of that?" moment. I'm surprised at how much we live inside "the box", but don't know how to break out.
    Interesting vid though.

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  2. I agree with you that we are educated away from creativity..I'm like you, fear keeps me from being as creative as I can be.

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  3. Well thought out, Brandi!

    Bravo

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  4. Agreed. The modern day educational system has almost successfully stripped us of creativity. I am just like you. I am a photographic arts major, because I discovered my creativity. I was never taught that creativity was ok or how to express it. I began college as a pre-med for an entire year, because our education system told me that I couldn't be creative growing up. Glad I got out of there.

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