How Schools Kill Creativity- Ken Robinson

•  NOTES ON VIDEO
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• Creativity is as important of an education as literacy
• Speaking of a little girl drawing a picture of god and the teacher says but no one knows what god looks like and the little girl replies, "They will in a minute"
•  If you're not prepared to be wrong you will never come up with anything original
•  Kids have become frightened of being wrong
•  All children are born artists and they grow out of it, the goal is to remain an artist
• We don't grow into creativity we are born out of it.
• Math, humanities, and the bottom are the arts
•  No public education system before the 19th century
•  Many highly talented brilliant people think they're not.
• Suddenly degrees aren't anything
•  Kids with degrees are heading home to carry on video games because academic inflation, now the degree you need is a masters or now the degree you need is a doctorate degree.
•  Intelligence is diverse, dynamic, distinct
• If a man speaks his mind in a forest and no one or woman hears him, is he still wrong?
• Rethink the fundamental principles that we are teaching our children
• See our children for the hope that they are
• We may not see this future but they will, and our job is to make something of it.

What do I think makes for good teaching?

I think that in order to be a good teacher you need to not necessarily act like you're there to teach people but to help them gain a better understanding for what you're trying to teach, one of my favorite classes in high school was creative writing because the teacher not only was open minded and willing to help out with anything he let us write about anything we wanted yet told us the main things he was trying to teach us about what we were writing. I feel like some teachers act as if we are burdening them by asking tons of questions about the topics that are being taught. for example i had a teacher who is very very smart man but his attitude scared most of the students and his teaching was very hard, i feel like if i hadn't gone through athletic medicine in high school and learned everything i learned i would never EVER have been able to pass his class. The tests were ridiculous and when i say ridiculous i mean it! i read every single chapter in that book and took so many notes, yet EVERY test would have questions on little things in between the lines.. even the study guide given out was just a "STUDY....GUIDE" its not what will be on the test. I mean.... he is a brilliant man and i loved the classes, but he also made people who answered his questions feel stupid if they were wrong, instead of asking well what made you think that? or i can see your reasoning for that but unfortunately something else, teachers now days scare the living crap out of me and everyone else in the class. instead of being there for the students and helping them understand it more.