Schools kill creativity...

Sir Robinson talks about creativity creatively because use in his talks a lot of passion and a ironic humor, making jokes about his own life and experiences, something like a stand up comedy, like Jerry Seinfield or Larry Charles (two genre’s masters), so it’s nice to hear him and the 20 minutes fly away.

This talk is about how school kills creativity, how school system put in first place technical knowledge over arts and other activities. Robinson says that everyone in this childhood have a talent, a latent talent, which, in most cases, isn’t developed because the hierarchy of the school system all of this contributes to a inflation of the real qualifications because in this days a simple degree doesn’t assure a job, now it’s necessary an MBA or a PhD for the same jobs than before you could get only with a degree. He also speak about think creatively, and for this goes for the children again saying that in this period, children aren’t prepared for making mistakes, so if they say, make or do something wrong, they don’t care very much and this is the key about creatively thinking because without the possibility of being wrong never comes up a original idea.

But, as a real review, there aren’t only flatters for Sir Robinson, and this is my modest contribution to the discussion, because Sir Robinson gives to much importance to arts in the creativity thinking, in other words, creativity not only applies on arts but also in science and other kind of activities like sports, technology, etc and all of them must put in the same priority and not only technical knowledge with artistic knowledge, but being realistic this argument is utopian because implies change all the school system as we know and in Chile at least, we can see how students and teachers fight to change it without results, but change it hardly for a decent one.