[MD] school kills creativity

[ml]

Thanks for the link.

His honeyed words hold hope
a dangerous commodity indeed
of rabble-rousers like this
current education has no need

As has been stated in this forum, though maybe
not in exactly this way, education is something we
do to ourselves in spite of the institutional thrashing
about.

The low priority of education leads to a low ability to
discriminate between students & the types of talents
and information processing styles they have.  In
all fairness, it is too expensive a task, given the money
available to the school districts.

The only thing worse than a cookie cutter one-size-fits
all structure for education is the change-everything-for -
the-sake-of-creativity, when it is implemented from the
top down.  It removes any hint of structure of knowledge
itself or the relationships between things.

Oddly enough, one of the best education systems I
ever saw was in a Boy Scout troop.  The end result
was that in order to pass to the next rank a boy was
required to master certain skills.  Left unspecified
was the method by which the learning of these skills
was to take place.

Different fathers of varied backgrounds worked with the
boys in teaching these skills.  Whether by design or by
the vagaries of schedules in the 'real world' there was
a rotation of fathers teaching the same class.
Boys who seemed too-thick-to-get-it in one class were
clearly able to do so in another father's teaching of the
material.  Different kids at different rates in different styles.

Sometimes a kid-who-got-it was the best teacher of
another kid.

The 'expert driven' solution in modern schools
precludes this precession of varied-ability-
teaching that penetrates to everyone.

The passage of my years through school was a
contrast between mind-numbing lecture, which
was personally good due to good memory, and
split-up-into-groups-and-figure-it-out-for-yourselves,
which was heinous.  It was unguided, structureless
playtime at any age from single digit to university.

I agree with Sir Ken, but the how of it is the real question.

thanks--mel

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Subject: [MD] school kills creativity


Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we're
educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our
school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types…

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity
.html



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