Ken Robinson Video

Ken Robinson seemed like a pretty funny, down to earth man. He also had a lot of wise things to say about the current education system. I would have to agree that education today focuses too much on academics and not enough on being creative. I know where I went to high school, we were encouraged to not take any art classes until final semester of our senior year. My question was why? If you enjoy art, and could possibly make a career out of it, who is the administration to tell you what you should focus on. Another thing that was looked at as more of a joke were the wood working classes. Administration looked at them as a way to eat up credits needed to graduate. I thought wood working classes were some of the best classes I ever took in high school. It didn't matter how smart you were, or what you got on your ACT, if you weren't creative, you couldn't do it. I think schools need to start emphasizing creativity into their cirriculums more often or else creativity will be lost to meaningless trigonometry and calculus equations in the near future.