First of all I would like to say that I enjoyed listen to that video. Ken Robinson was a funny guy. It was just not him up there talking about the topic of school and creative. He made it fun and enjoyable to watch. I agree with him, that, we don’t let kids be more creative. Kid’s minds are so creative and we don’t give them the chance to showcase it. We are too busy telling them to put there imagine away, and take out your text books. Do get me wrong the core classes are very important. I thing that we need to give them more time to let their minds be free and be creative.
I always hated it when you had an English class and the teacher told you what you had to write about. I didn’t like how it limited me to what I could write about. So I would write the paper on the topic the teacher picked. I would do well on it. I feel if I could have picked what I wanted to write about it would have been better, because it would have had more meaningful to me. That is a case of school not letting me use my creative side when it comes to writing. I understand that sometime you need to tell the students what to write about. You don’t need to tell them every time though.
I hated that to, it was either a topic that i had no interest in or I just didnt care about the subject, I often found myself just throwing something togeather and calling it good. often it lead to a bad grade. Thats one thing I like about this class, it gives you a chance to creat your own subjects and thoughts.
ReplyDeleteSame here! Let the kids decide what they want to write about...they might just suprise you with what they think of!
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