Do schools kill creativity?

Question

https://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ken_ ... ivity.html

89nk · Answer

I believe it is certain teaching styles that damage creativity. For instance, in grade school, most of the time, the teachers provide the questions and churn the students for answers. Due to this, the students hardly ever learn how to ask the questions, leading them to become answer generating machines, with very little ability to ask questions to generate creativity outside the norm.

mandb · Answer

I think it depends on teacher and his/her style.

togafoot · Answer

Down to curriculum and teaching style based on the school philosphy.

This is one of the areas the PYP (Primary Years Programme) and MYP (Middle Years Programmes) programmes address, which is increasingly becoming prevalent in International schools. It leads to the international baccalaureate https://www.ibo.org/

jb32 · Answer

Yes, I think its pretty obvious with the move to nationalized education standards that creativty is being squeezed out of the education process. I remember hearing story (it may have been in that talk since I heard it a few weeks ago :wink:

) about teachers in NYC public schools that were given a script with something like 75 steps to teach one particular lesson. I mean every teacher in the city was to teach this lesson the exact same way at the exact same time on the exact same day. How can we expect kids to be creative if we try and make everything so uniform? I've also read that some school officials are trying to split the high school curriculum more into college bound and vocational degrees, which at least allows people not college bound to learn a skill in high school. It's a start, but I have to agree that our education system does stifle creativity. I mean it is designed to give everyone a bare minimum education, not give as many people as possible a great education. Of course there are exceptions, and I would guess many of us went to those schools where we could take as many AP classes as possible. But on the whole, schools are just trying to get as many students out the doors with a degree, and not truly taking the time to challenge each and every one of them to be great.

timetrader · Answer

Here is a new recent video by the same guy.
https://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robins ... ution.html

It's a pity I discovered these videos just recently, when they were just in front of me.
It seems that the main point is not the teaching style/the teacher/the specific school but the education as system. I like this points made by Ken Robinson

the significance of creativity and self realization (i mean the real one, not the one we often say of on resumes and interviews)

the inability of current education system to provide good environment for flourishing creativity and self realization

the deflation of current educational value (ex. 50 years ago as long as you had a degree, you could get a good job, now you need an MBA, PhD. 700 used to be a good score for GMAT now is is 760)

YourDreamTheater · Answer

This is exactly why I love the TED talks. They always make me think!

Great post

Z12 · Answer

Interesting related article: https://www.newsweek.com/2010/07/10/the- ... risis.html

Pako · Answer

It's one of my favourite talks ever

programmingmax · Answer

yep ! it totally does !

BusinessBecause · Answer

yes probably! i had dinner last night with head of credit trading at GS and he said all the MBAs that come through for interview at GS are like drones. obviously he may be biased as he doesn't have an MBA himself and probably doesn't see the immediate value for a trading floor job... but interesting nonetheless... even worse he said that the last 2 chinese applicants applying for grad jobs said they like "reading wikipedia" and "reading finance text books" when asked about their hobbies and what they enjoy doing in their free time....

ganapriya · Answer

It the indian system of education that is killing creativity, completely book & exams nothing other than that.

donold · Answer

it depend on teacher to teacher with his or her style of teaching with subject in both way teacher can make creativity for lesson... even i must say if you teach with new creativity and technique lesson then every student will be get benifited

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