Summary of "Do Schools Kill Creativity" Presented by Ken Robinson

     In the video "Do Schools Kill Creativity" presented by Ken Robinson at a TED conference, he argues that schools are only teaching education and not creativity which the school system should be focusing on.  During school kids are taught to be educated in academics and not so much on the arts and music.  If a child likes those two subjects, then they are told at a young age that art and music will never get them a job in the future.  When a child is growing up they don't care that they are wrong.  Now, when a child is told that they are doing something wrong they don't ever want to make another mistake ever again.  That is when they lose their creativity.  If a child loses their creativity, then they may never find what they really like to do in life or even what they are good at.  The education system right now is made for academic integrity only, nothing else.  Academic inflation is happening in this country; this means in order to be the best that you can be a student goes to college and gets their AS.  If an AS is not good enough then they have to go get their BS.  Then if that is not good then they have to go on and get their MD, and then their PhD.  That is all because jobs want to see how much schooling a person has and to be highly educated.  In school kids should be taught about everything even creativity because the adults today do not know what the future holds.  Adults have to show the kids what the right thing to do and to do what they do best, not just math and science.
     I agree with the thought that Mr. Robinson proposes.  I think that schools do kill kids creativity.  In my own experience I feel like I have lost all creativity while I was in school.  During elementary school it was easier for me to sit down in art class and start drawing anything.  Then once school got a little harder and started to focus more on academics I felt like my creativity was fading away.  Middle school and high school projects and art classes were extremly hard for me because I felt like I did not have a good imagenation anymore.  Even now when I have to make up a creative writing peice for english I have a really hard time with that.  If school did not push math, english, science, and social studies so much in school then I think I would still have a creative mind and do thing things that I liked to do as a child.  When I was growing up I only had half a hour for art and music class the rest of the school day was focused on academics.  If schools start to focused on art and music a little bit more when kids are growing up and in the future, then I think that it would make a whole generation of people who will be very productive in the world and love what they do. 

Work Cited

Talks, TED. "Do Schools Kill Creativity." YouTube. YouTube, Feb. 2006. Web. 23 Oct. 2012