Yes, he is. He opened his mouth.
And on to the subject of this weeks blog post!
This blog post is my take on "Ken Robinson Says Schools Kill Creativity", released by TED in June 2006.
I completely agree with everything that Robinson says. He states how as children grow older, adults in their lives, adults whom they trust and think the world of, cause children to go off the path they want to follow, if not consciously then sub concsiously.
Take for example the story about the little girl who was brought in to see a specialist with her mother because she couldn't sit still. The specialist told the mother that the little girl was a dancer, not sick, and recommended dancing lessons. The little girl grew up to become a dancer for the Royal Ballet, and founded her own dance company and a multi-millionaire. And someone else might have put her on some medication that caused her to "calm down".
Children these days are up against so much. With constant developments in psychology, children are diagnosed with and are medicated for ADD, ADHD, and many other learning disabilities at such young ages just because they are "different".
When a child says they want to major in something like music or art, they are turned away from those choices by parents and even educators who tell them they have no future in that field. That it's not as respectable in comparing a Masters in Music to a Masters in Mechanical Engineering. That's not fair at all. Children don't have any other way of knowing things, from learning different things, than from their own family or teachers. They don't know the difference between being a doctor or a dancer. All they know is what they like, what makes them happy. And children know what they want because they are always happy. Maybe we should take a cue from them instead of vice versa. Maybe we should start to follow what makes us happy, instead of what's socially acceptable.
When a child says they want to major in something like music or art, they are turned away from those choices by parents and even educators who tell them they have no future in that field. That it's not as respectable in comparing a Masters in Music to a Masters in Mechanical Engineering. That's not fair at all. Children don't have any other way of knowing things, from learning different things, than from their own family or teachers. They don't know the difference between being a doctor or a dancer. All they know is what they like, what makes them happy. And children know what they want because they are always happy. Maybe we should take a cue from them instead of vice versa. Maybe we should start to follow what makes us happy, instead of what's socially acceptable.
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