Ken Robinson's Ted Talk explores the knowledge claim that the way education is structured harms our creativity. This real-life situation focuses on the the ethics of knowledge, particularly within imagination. While watching this talk, Robinson allows viewers to wonder: Do schools kill creativity?.
In my opinion, creativity is not encouraged in education as it allows for mistakes, something which schools and the workforce discourage. Robinson believes that "we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it". As kids age, they are made to believe mistakes are bad and that facts allow for more opportunities in life, a bias rigorously enforced. While imagination offers incredible opportunities as well as room for mistakes, the fear of making a mistake may come from the extra time this mistake would take to essentially "perfect". Since time is equated to money, this fear of losing money and time may relate to making mistakes. From the biased point of a education system, if children are constantly told mistakes are bad, they will spend less wasted time trying to perfect the mistakes, time which could be spent furthering education.
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