RS 7: Ken Robinson & Education

I’ve been sitting in classrooms for over a decade with different teachers, learning about different things, in different schools. But a commonality that does exist, that Ken Robinson spoke about, is that every education has the same hierarchy. With math and language being at the top followed by humanities and art being the lowest on the chain. Not only is there a hierarchy of education but also a lack of creativity or at least further developing students creative side of the brain. Ken Robinson’s speech about schools killing creativity is an insight to what the future may hold and the problems in the education system at the present time.

Many people say there are many flaws with the education system whether that may be with our testing systems or, like Ken Robinson says, the lack of creativity that the education system allows. No matter what, the education system is a crucial aspect of children’s lives and is a significant part of children’s developments. Ken Robinson explains how kids are willing to take chances but when they become frightened of being wrong they loose their originality. Which leads to students “growing out of creativity”. The problem that this causes is an issue on a personal level but also a problem for the future. Robinson declares the education system needs to be reevaluated.

I think Ken Robinson has a valid point with saying the education system has flaws. I know first hand my sister, who is an artist, had a major problem with the education system throughout her life. For nine years of her life she struggled through classes, getting poor grades on her report cards, and getting in trouble from my parents. My parents hired a different tutor for each class to try and increase her grade but the only class that had a good grade was art, which only met once a week. By the time high school came, she was able to pick a few art classes as her elective but still did poorly in all of her other classes. Sheg ended up going to college at Marywood University, an art school, in which she excelled and did extremely great. To this day, she is working at top magazine in New York City making a great amount of money, loving her career. After struggling through all of her years in the education system she is know more successful than anyone would have thought.