In the speech of ‘how school kill creativity’, Ken Robinson says the most important thing for education is to educate children their whole being. As for his opinion, I have both for and against ideas.
First, I against his opinion that we should treat all subjects equal especially arts. Ken Robinson say ‘our education system is predicted on the idea of academic ability. Because there was no public systems of education before 19th century and education system was made in order to meet the needs of industrial society. So we made superiority and inferiority for subjects.While it may be true but I think subjects should be treated differently. Ordinary the people who studied arts enthusiastically were wealthy because arts needs a lot of money.As a citizen, we have to make moneys. And if a person born at poor household, he has less choices than rich people about what he can do. Arts potentially different in that there is people who can’t learn economically so shouldn’t be treated similarly with other subjects. I think practical subjects should be preferred than arts.
Second, I agree with the opinion that we should recognize human’s unlimited creativity make our life affluent and children are the hope for the future. Ken Robinson says ‘creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status. If you are not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original. And by the time they got to be adults most kids have lost that capacity. They have become frightened of being wrong’. These claim are to the point. It is true that more and more people want their educational backgrounds and want to enter a high level university, but it make their creativity and diversity loss. For example, there is a typical lifestyle in Japan. A man who is raised by a mother devoted to the education will enter the high level junior high school, high school, and university. At last he enter a large company. This is a typical successful life style in Japan, so many Japanese people think entering high level university means success, all we have to do is to study for an exam. Now Japanese often be said there is no personality, they can only solve examination questions. In order to overcome this state, we have to look again educational system.
Actually I have an against opinion to him but I roughly agree with him. I think we need more flexible educational system for us.