On Sir Ken’s thoughts

• Sir Ken Robinson: Do Schools Kill Creativity? 2007. Film. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY&feature=youtube_gdata_player

In the absence of the unsymposium today, I checked out Sir Ken Robinson’s lecture ‘Do School’s Kill Creativity?’. First off, I’d love to be one of his besties as he seems like the loveliest man, was this why he got a knighthood? I’ll do some research.

He presents his arguments in an endearing and personable way and I can’t help but say ‘HE’S ABSOLUTELY RIGHT’ outloud in the student atelier. He mentions something Pablo Picasso said about every child being born an artist and how the doctrines of education kind of quell this child like ingenuity and brainwash us into measuring the happiness of life and a person’s merits on superficial things.

If you google it, there are some super famous high school drop outs. Albert Einstein, Tarantino etc. People who have obviously defied the constraints of education and managed to completely own life and pursue their passions like the choreographer of Cats Ken mentions (I want to be on a first name basis with him).

As a gal paying an upwards of I don’t know what to be taught stuff (or indoctrinated, though I’m not quite at Jane Eyre’s Lowood school for Girls) at uni, I don’t quite know if I want to accept what Ken has to say but as a consolatory thought I’m reflecting on the creativity and general wonderment of children and im sure you will too with this gif: