Ken Robinson

Even in modern day 20th century despite our growth in society, eachone who wishes to pursue any dreams or aspirations in the arts is heavily criticized for any chance of success and is frowned upon. In this article, Robinson (2006) takes an interesting approach to convey his point across that school upbringing systems kill creativity. He takes three approaches which are listing, explaining and analysis. He uses hes own personal stories and professional stand point to grasp the readers attention.Robinson discusses the theme spoken throughout the presentations and how it will tie into his presentation. He now goes on by explaining that creativity should be treated with the same status as literacy has in education. According to Robinson (2006) he states, We stigmatize mistakes and were now running a national education system where mistakes are the worst thing you abide make. The result of creating that stigma is that we are educating people out of their creative capacities.Robinson r efers to a quote from Picasso that states all children are born artist. How will we fix these issues and economize the creative mindset if all we do is frown upon those who are more artistically bound rather than academically bound. Robinson shares a perfect example of the introductory statement. He shares a story of a personal friend named Gillian Lynne, a world known choreographer for Phantom of the Opera and Cats. He opposed the question to Gillian on how she became a dancer and she explained that in school she felt hopeless and could never concentrate.The teacher suggested to her parents that she had a learning disorder she was sent to see a psychologist who later(prenominal) on came to the conclusion after observing her that Gillian was not sick in anyway, she was just a dancer. She later on attended a dance school, auditioned hatful Robinson 3 for the Royal Ballet Academy, graduated and founded her own company. One of many perfect examples of artistic people who became ins anely successful despite the lack of academics.Robinson (2006) concludes with how there are three types of intelligence, its diverse, its dynamic and its distinct. According to Robinson (2006) We invest a lot of time into educating children on how to succeed in the future but if we are unable to predict the future in five years despite our expertise the whos to say were meant to organize them for it. How will we prepare them for a time that is so far away and technology that has yet to be invented yet. Robinson goes into urther analyzation when he says We must adopt a radical conception of human ecology, one of which we start to reconstitute out conception of the richness of human capacity. As for the future it wont coif us. We have to rethink the fundamental principles on which were educating our children. Robinson (2006) How can we push the human capacity to its full potential if were not exploring all it its aspects. We would not have people like William Shakespeare if we di dnt explore the artistic aspect and the historic change make in art and literacy.Read alsoHow almighty Do You Find Atticus Finchs Closing Speech?Robinson did an exceptional job at capturing the readers attention and let the think of his countersign and making them form their own opinion. He also backed up every point with a personal story and/or fact which made this more effective. He used humour as an essential way to make his presentation entertaining yet analytical. He argued both pros and cons to each range of a function in order to show he was not biased. Ken Robinson 4 Robinson theory that school kills creativity was proven to be well written and presented by adding humour, personal stories and facts. He left the readers with a lot to debate about and consider.