Ken Robinson believes all kids have tremendous talent and we squander them. He believes we stigmatize mistakes, educating people out of creative capacity. He states that kids are educated out of their creativity, rather than growing into it they grow out of it. Every school has the same hierarchy of subjects, placing arts at bottom. Ken Robinson even uses examples such as a young girl named Julian, who disrupted the other students because she couldn't sit still, now a days she would be diagnosed as having ADHD, but back then all she needed was to dance. She was an active thinker, have to move to think. She became a ballet dancer, multi-millionaire now and if she had been in school now when would have been given meds and told to calm down, what would she have accomplished?
I think some problems children are diagnosed with are jumped to many automatic conclusions, like ADHD. There is the possibility of other means to helping kids with some of their, what we may think to be issues like ADHD. I believe there is no telling how many kids are misdiagnosed at such young ages that it squandered out something that might have been important one day. So in effect I believe what he says is true schools kill creativity. Sad because creative thinking leads to thinking outside the box in turn leads to discovery, leading to new ideas.
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