Every education system on
Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and
languages, then humanities, and the bottom are the arts. Now our education
system is predicated on the idea of academic ability. We are educating people
out of their creative capacities, is
stigmatize mistakes and decrease creativity of children.
Ken Robinson champions a
radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge
multiple types of intelligence.
He argues that it's because
we've been educated to become good workers, rather than creative thinkers.
Students with restless minds and bodies -- far from being cultivated for their
energy and curiosity -- are ignored or even stigmatized, with terrible
consequences.
Today the purpose of education has a merely
industrial order, if we educate ourselves well, we will have a job. But the
truth is that this reality is not guaranteed. The truth is that the curricular
system was conceived and designed in another era, in other economic
circumstances at the time of the industrial revolution. And today the
intellectual capacity of people classified as academic (smart people) or
nonacademic (dumb people). It is believed that at present the attention deficit
is a modern epidemic among students. The children are being medicated for it.
And in reality it is logical that children are more distracted as they are
available more distractions such as computers, televisions, iPhones, and most
of all advertising. It is logical that the concentration decreases in the
classroom as they teach boring stuff. The victims of this mentality are the
artists. Schools seem to be designed as industries, everything is standardized.
The opposite are the thoughts that diverge is the same as creativity.
Creativity is the ability to find different solutions for the same problem. In the
institutions, over the years this ability deteriorates
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