TED Talks - Ken Robinson

Sir Ken Robinson stated that "We are educating  people out of their creative capacities." and to a certain point, I agree. Although I feel that in some cases children are sometimes encouraged to pursue their creativity, it seems that it takes a back seat compared the more academic subjects like science, maths etc. It seems as though, at this day in age people are urged to take subjects that will lead to an eventual well paying job or career at the end of it.

Sir Ken Robinson said "You were probably steered away from things at school when you were a kid - things you liked - on the grounds that you would never get a job doing that: 'Don't do music, you're not going to be a musician. Don't do art, you won't be an artist' benign advice - now profoundly mistaken". Unfortunately, this seems to be the case. We are told throughout our entire childhood that we need to do well in school to get good jobs in order to provide a good life for ourselves and our families. Putting that much pressure or stress onto children could seriously affect their desire to be creative since they might choose to ignore their passion for the arts in order to pursue a career that might end up in them pushing numbers in an office. A child may have a raw talent in art, music or drama but since they are being told that it's not as important as some of the "real" subjects they might give up on it and potentially lose out on a career in that field.

Whilst I agree that the more academic subjects are very important and useful, it does not draw from  the fact that creativity and innovation is a vital part of child development and without it there would be no movies, songs or any other type of artistic concepts. We would simply be a race of drones, following orders, living day by day never progressing forward in terms of technology or anything for that matter.