Do Schools Kill Creativity?

Education is broadly speaking, the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Systems of schooling involve institutionalized teaching and learning in relation to a curriculum, which itself is established according to a predetermined purpose of the schools in the system. The question posed more and more frequently is how to optimise the effects of instruction following a curriculum considered relevant to the needs of a 21st century society. The debate continues.

 

http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_bring_on_the_revolution.html

 

Responses

http://chrisdavis.wordpress.com/2010/09/02/reforming-public-schools-a-response-to-ken-robinson-marty-nemko/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agAmC6-t2QQ

https://sites.google.com/site/kyleliaowriting/response-pieces/response-to-ken-robinson-s-schools-kill-creativity

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seMmE9FElnY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvz5unrQ4E8