I fully a agree with sir Ken Robinson on the idea that schools kill creativity because when everyone is child they have a crazy imagination.  Well along the lines of you growing up some of us lose this imagination and most peoples just start to decrease.  One of the reasons for this in my opinion is that we learn to listen to who's in charge.  For example your teacher, often teachers will assign a project and give you what your supposed to do, how to do it, and a certain way for it to be presented.  Well wheres the creativity in that?  If instead the teacher asked you to be creative and use your imagination than there would be 20 different students portraying there ideas of what the presentation should look like.  In the big picture our society is built around "the man".  The man being a boss, a teacher, a leader of government, now don't get me wrong we do need all these people in order for the world to be functional and not out of control.  However we are told that we are going to work our buts off for our 60 years of our life's and than we get the rest to retire and have the freedom we have been always waiting for.  Now how does creativity fit into that?  If someone told a 7 year old that they are going to grow up work every day to make money feed your family and pay taxes than retire and be old, I think that the child will have a much different picture on what life will be like when he/she grows up.     
2/26/2013 06:14:32 am

You have some good points about society smashing creativity. Kelly had a similar blog to yours, and I really liked her one thought: Does our loss of creativity come from schools killing it, or does it come from us learning reality?

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Eric Wilson
2/26/2013 11:54:43 am

well in my opinion reality is based on education. I mean when you look at the big picture our society is built around our education systems. Without education there really isn't a society.

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Thomas Dagenais
2/27/2013 08:16:38 am

Very good points I totally agree with you and think that adults have no creativity.

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Matt
5/9/2013 02:23:19 am

This post brings up a very good point about the influence that elders, or "the man" have on a child's upbringing and how they learn to perceive the world. I definitely agree that the structure of people's careers does not allow for a lot of creativity, however one could make the point that it depends on how the individual chooses to spend their 60 years working. Depending on whether they have creative jobs or have hobbies on the side, people can still be creative even if they are living a very structured life of working until retirement.

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