I agree with Ken Robinson’s idea in whole. I believe that creativity is as important as languages and mathematics, as he said.
When I was a high school student, I often felt dissatisfied with an educational system because my teachers told me to do what they said anyway as if the reason is not necessary . It seemed that there wasn’t discretion of students. In such a school, it seems that the higher their performances of main five subjects in school is , the more excellent students are. Although languages and mathematics are very important and the possibility of using that knowledge in the future will be higher than that of putting to practical use what you learned about ,for example, arts, students have likes and dislikes and they will often decide their job based on that preference. Now, subjects requiring creativity such as arts is not so valued. In fact, in high school I went to, we can’t choose the classes of music and home economics when we were third-year students. Though I didn’t intend to choose such classes of art since I would be a university student majoring in law, students who were interested in arts and planed to be musician or designer was prevented from taking fascinating classes for them.
By the way, I know a big man who attended to classes he didn’t take but he was interested in, daring to quit a university. He is Steve Jobs, one of the founder of Apple Inc. He dropped out a university to stop to take classes he was not interested in because he thought costs of classes he took was not enough valuable to spend money his parents earned. And then he started to sneak into classes he was really interested in. He said ” the knowledge I learned at that time is very precious for me, especially about calligraphy because I utilized the knowledge to equip with Mac a lot of font and adjustment of space between words”.
As you can understand from his case, it is better to do what you want to do than to do what you think of as boring or disinteresting. If you are not concerned about making mistakes and you follow your heart, then you can make your natural capacity improved ; that is creativity.
In conclusion, it is necessary to change current educational styles so that they could have a chance to select what subjects they focus on.