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Sir Ken Robinson’s presentation “Schools Kill Creativity” on TEDTalk brought up a very interesting point. First of all, humans have an enormous display of creativity when provoked, which in turn put us in a position to where we don’t know what that means for us for the future as far as change goes. The ones that are mostly innocently provoked and affected are children, but unfortunately as they get older they are essentially stripped of the idea to embrace their creativity due to the hierarchical educational system our world has declared standard. Sir Robinson speaks about the new generation.

If you think of it, children starting school this year will be retiring in 2065. Nobody has a clue -- despite all the expertise that's been on parade for the past four days -- what the world will look like in five years' time. And yet we're meant to be educating them for it. So the unpredictability, I think, is extraordinary.

Sir Robinson believes we need to better fully encourage the development and enrichment of children’s creative capacity in order to keep up with the change for the need of dynamic, well-rounded education. He goes on to say “And my contention is, all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.” After watching his talk, we’d have to say we completely agree with him. Robinson began his speech by talking about how everyone’s education is very interesting and unique. He also stated how creativity is not as encouraged in education as a subject such as literacy is, and should be, but isn’t due to a hierarchy within the subjects of education. Robinson says

Everyone doesn't matter where you go. You'd think it would be otherwise, but it isn't. At the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are the arts. Everywhere on Earth and in pretty much every system too, there's a hierarchy within the arts.

Since there is this established hierarchy Robinson says that children are taught that being creative promotes the idea that it is okay to be wrong, so it is basically educated out of them, and “disembodying” them focusing on what they should know rather than do or want to do because education and society has told them not to follow their creativity. Robinson says “They have become frightened of being wrong. And we run our companies like this, by this way. We stigmatize mistakes.” This is because it has been proven that the arts and creative subjects have been placed at the bottom of our hierarchical pyramid of subjects ever since our education system was created. What about the transformation in our educational world that now calls for changes because of the inflation of college entrants in non-expressive subjects? This is why Robinson feels so strongly on embracing such an alteration in our approach to education especially to children. He also explains that “What we do know is, if you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.” When Sir Robinson talked about his encounter with Gillian Lynne, the choreographer of “Cats” and “Phantom of the Opera” and how she had to be placed in a school for dance at the age of 8 to discover that her fidgety behavior in grade school was actually just a need to dance we started thinking. Why are there only magnet schools and schools of the arts to separate the creatively inclined from the academically inclined? Maybe separation is exactly the problem. If there were schools that embraced both creativity and education equally, then children would learn that being introduced to all levels of the educational subjects pyramid that they would be more encouraged to act and think and therefore learn on a more personalized and individual level, allowing them to succeed at their own will. When children are introduced to a more well-rounded education, their intelligence is exercised that much more, giving them the opportunity to express their creativity freely. There should not be a separation of children according to their strengths because some children who are more creative than others are often diagnosed with learning disorders such as ADHD. If children were able to be in the same environment together learning the same amount of each type of subjects we believe they would be better off and have a complete sense of who they are and what they are good at and that expressing themselves freely is an everyday and encouraged part of life. Watching this video has actually opened our eyes to this type of issue that we had never really thought existed. It is very real and true that children are often stuck in an education and career path that they are not pushed to their fullest potential due to the lack of encouragement for creativity through our preset educational system that has existed since the 19th century. In order to change this we believe that the hierarchy of educational subjects should be diminished and a curriculum that promotes a level distribution of teaching these subjects should be developed.