Ken Robinson https://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity
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The educational systems all over the world teach our kids from the bottom-up, ending and finishing with their heads. Typically the main subjects in every school are science, social studies, literature, and mathematics. This is excluding elective classes that take up a very small area of students schedules. Even though these education systems are "required" to have elective classes available many of them are starting to cut preforming arts from their school due to budget cuts, forcing students to take more academic class. Robinson proves this with ethos by stating a quote by the famous and respected artist Picasso, "all children are born artist", he then continues on to say "we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it, or rather we get educated out of it". In the next 30 years more people worldwide will be graduating in education since the beginning of time. Having an education has become a norm in society now a days. It has become nearly impossible to enter a well-paying career without a college education. And even before that it has become very difficult to attend a rigorous college without taking college classes in high school. Education seems to be shoved down our children throats at a very young age, seemingly taking away their childhood that consists of their creativity development stages. Robinson, a former college professor, uses his experiences in the educational systems to depict how education has changed overtime to show his audience how their children and future generations will be effected by these methods of education.
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This speech can connect to the documentary 30 Days in which many people are trapped in the poverty cycle do to the lack of education they have. Many of the most poor people are some of the most creatively talented people in the world, but are unable to use these skills due to their "irrelevance". The system of education is very unfair in which if you do not get off to a good start as a young child you are more likely to fail in the future. This relate to the Right to Fail, but also goes against what is preached within it. The article states that failure is indeed and option and often times provides opportunities, but the educational systems described in this speech seem to shut that down. Many of the people within the document My Reality face these difficulties due to their failure at a young age and not achieving their education, forcing them into minimum wage jobs that provide them an in poverty lifestyle. This makes the American Dream even more difficult due to new importance of education that older generations did not achieve.
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I believe that this is a very good article that provide us in depth and inside knowledge on the importance of education in the United States and how it can effect our children's levels of creativity and the way they think. This can also show people who are enveloped and focused on their education that it may have a negative impact on them. Even though a way Robinson could have made this speech a little better is to have tried to make it a little less humorous and have more factual points within it.