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This blog post is my take on the video “Ken Robinson says schools are killing creativity” by Ken Robinson. This video was posted in June of 2006 and appeared on TED.  Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we're educating our children.

Sir Ken Robinson discusses how kids are all born artist, but lose it as they grow older.  Which I believe is true.  All little kids are creative, but Robinson believes they lose there creativeness as they taught in schools these days.  I believe this is not 100 percent true because if it was thee would be no artist in the world.  He also talks about we all dont know whats going to happen in 5 years and what the kids (starting school now) are going to be taught (and how if we dont what will happen how can we teach them).  

Robinson thinks creativity is as important as any subject in school.  "The grading system forces children to believe that if you get good grades then you are a smart person." "Kids then do not want to make mistakes because they want good grades making them fearful of taking chances." "Ken’s argument is that we are educating children out of their creativity and we are. Children are creative because they take chances and because they are scared of taking chances they lose their creativity."  He talked about a girl in the 1930s because she would not stop moving.  The doctors check her out and they left her alone.  The whole time they watched her dance.  She became a famous dancer after that.  Now and days they would of gave she pills to calm down.

I believe Sir Ken Robinson has great points.  This video was a great interesting video and it made it better that Sir Ken Robinson was a funny man. I believe you need a balance of both creativeness and education.  Creativeness helps kids express themselves.  Education is the key to this life, I mean maybe in the future is wont be as important.  But for now education is the key to surviving in this life.  Education means everything.  Having an education should get you a job you love, never worry about it, and you come home happy after working.  Being creative can get you place too but you got to get lucky and get discovered. Education is for some and creativeness is for some.  I believe in both and believe I do both.  The picture above^ is a little creation I drew last year during my (block) Media Studies class.^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^