Cherish instead of Change

After our classes this week I got online and I looked through the internet and read many things regarding education, creativity and classrooms today, I found interesting ideas but one that really caught my attention and kept me thinking was a video from TED. The video was called “Do Schools Kill Education” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sir-ken-robinson/do-schools-kill-creativity_b_2252942.html. In the video Sir Ken Robinson was speaking about his views on how important creativity is in our world today. One of the points he made was the fact that kids are not afraid to fail until we teach them its not right to fail. He said, “ If you’re not prepared to be wrong you will never come up with anything original”; I feel like this quote explains one reason why creativity is so important to keep in education. Our world won’t prevail if people stop coming up with new ideas. The mind of a child is like nothing else. Its full of imagination and possibilities, and I feel like we should cherish it instead of change it.

In todays society I feel like every one wants to be right all of the time. Just like Mr. Glassman was saying we strive to make other people happy by doing what we think they want, but does this really get us anywhere? The questions that arise in my mind have a lot to do with what the world would be like if failing wasn’t bad. I also think about what education will do to my daughters mind if it stays the way it is right now.