Ken Robinson Ted Talk

Whilst Studying Educational studies in Swansea Metropolitan, I have come across Ted Talks due to one of our lectures being based upon Ken Robinson. I really enjoyed the talk, and had to write a five hundred word reflection essay based on the talk about school killing creativity. Normally I don’t find talks like this that interesting but from the minute my tutor pressed play I was engaged in the clip, I wanted to find out more, what he had to say about education. My thoughts, when I actually looked back on the video clip in order to gain a little bit more sense in it, to look to see if I had missed an important comment or something, became more familiar to me. I actually felt more switched on as some would say. I actually managed to listen to something, really enjoy the clip and have quite big thoughts on it. I agreed with most that Ken Robinson had to say about education. I have recently watched more clips on education as Ken Robinson has helped inspire that little bit more in education despite my passion to become a teacher since a child. Ken Robinson talked about schools killing creativity and what education is working towards now. He believes that people are being educated to go to university, sit exams and work, there is far less focus on subjects such as art and drama and music now that people are being forced to learn things that they have no interest in what so ever. This proves that, yes, schools are killing creativity. I have recently left school and have gone straight to university and I fully understand what Ken Robinson is saying as I have experienced it. Schools are only focusing on the core subjects such as Maths, English and Science. Before long graduates are not going to be seen as important as what they are today and what they were a few years ago due to so many people going to university now, that holding a degree is not going to be seen as good anymore. I totally agree with these thoughts that Ken Robinson had. Here is a link to the Ken Robinson talk on Ted.