synthesis - RIP Creativity in Education - Why?
Poster: SySAdmin
Posted on August 6, 2010 at 11:07:02 AM
synthesis - RIP Creativity in Education - Why?
SEATTLE, Aug. 6 -- The following blog post was published on July 25, 2010, by Shafeen Charania, author of the synthesis blog, winner of the 2008 Weblog award for best new blog, and Time.com's 25 best blogs of 2009.
Education America has become an end unto itself - the system is less about whether children graduate prepared for the world vs. whether they went through the process of going to the school. The former is righteous, the latter smacks of too many administrators and mid-level bureaucrats getting in the way of people with a legitimate desire to help our children be the best they can be.
"If you are not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original." Sir Ken Robinson said this at a conference in 2006 when speaking about how Western education is actually extracting creativity from our children.
We need to fundamentally re-think our motivation for investing in public education in the first place, in order to graduate anything other than mindless widgets.
To learn more, please visit: http://interacc.typepad.com/synthesis/2010/07/why.html.
Source: synthesis
CONTACT: Shafeen Charania of synthesis blog, +1-425-445-6850,
shafeenc@hotmail.com, http://interacc.typepad.com/
Web Site: http://interacc.typepad.com/
SEATTLE, Aug. 6 -- The following blog post was published on July 25, 2010, by Shafeen Charania, author of the synthesis blog, winner of the 2008 Weblog award for best new blog, and Time.com's 25 best blogs of 2009.
Education America has become an end unto itself - the system is less about whether children graduate prepared for the world vs. whether they went through the process of going to the school. The former is righteous, the latter smacks of too many administrators and mid-level bureaucrats getting in the way of people with a legitimate desire to help our children be the best they can be.
"If you are not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original." Sir Ken Robinson said this at a conference in 2006 when speaking about how Western education is actually extracting creativity from our children.
We need to fundamentally re-think our motivation for investing in public education in the first place, in order to graduate anything other than mindless widgets.
To learn more, please visit: http://interacc.typepad.com/synthesis/2010/07/why.html.
Source: synthesis
CONTACT: Shafeen Charania of synthesis blog, +1-425-445-6850,
shafeenc@hotmail.com, http://interacc.typepad.com/
Web Site: http://interacc.typepad.com/