Ken Robinson - How School Kills Creativity
http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html
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Alternative Education the answer?
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Ken Robinson - How School Kills Creativity
http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html
@James Worthy for highlighting this
Somewhat truth to this for me 
I am not illiterate, but I HATE reading books. If I want to learn how to fix a car, I want to be mentored. My brain easily picks up stuff better when I have a mentor/professional teach me what I am doing wrong. If was to read a book to change oil, I would have no fukking clue what it was talking about. I am a hands on guy, I cannot read a book to learn.
I am not illiterate, but I HATE reading books. If I want to learn how to fix a car, I want to be mentored. My brain easily picks up stuff better when I have a mentor/professional teach me what I am doing wrong. If was to read a book to change oil, I would have no fukking clue what it was talking about. I am a hands on guy, I cannot read a book to learn.
Somewhat truth to this for me
I am not illiterate, but I HATE reading books. If I want to learn how to fix a car, I want to be mentored. My brain easily picks up stuff better when I have a mentor/professional teach me what I am doing wrong. If was to read a book to change oil, I would have no fukking clue what it was talking about. I am a hands on guy, I cannot read a book to learn.
I don't mind reading books, but some of these books just don't get to the fukking point. Plus people don't realize that many people hate book learning because our teachers from childhood made it into a military discipline exercise instead of enjoyment.
He is gotdamn right. Whenever I gave my students a creative writing assignment (or anything that required critical thinking) 90% of the shyt I'd get back would make me go 
He is gotdamn right. Whenever I gave my students a creative writing assignment (or anything that required critical thinking) 90% of the shyt I'd get back would make me go
What grade you teach? and Why you think that a lot of kids hate reading books?
HS...
To me, I think it has to do with 1) not feeling a connection to the material 2) disinterest in the genre/subject 3) it wasn't instilled in them from a young age
A few years back I taught freshman English. When I found out I was like
because honestly speaking I'm not big on reading books myself (I fall under category 2) and I knew that English is difficult to teach. Plus I had special ed classes. The first semester had many moments but I found my niche with plays (Othello, Raisin in the Sun, etc.). I did my best to build a connection and make it "modern" and they ATE. THAT. shyt. UP. 
I received a commendation and everything.Still didn't get tenure that year, but that is another thread
HS...
To me, I think it has to do with 1) not feeling a connection to the material 2) disinterest in the genre/subject 3) it wasn't instilled in them from a young age
A few years back I taught freshman English. When I found out I was like
Still didn't get tenure that year, but that is another thread
Sad that the don't appreciate alternative education that can make learning easier to digest.
I agree with breh.
Our education system churns out robots, not innovators
Our education system churns out robots, not innovators
Somewhat truth to this for me
I am not illiterate, but I HATE reading books. If I want to learn how to fix a car, I want to be mentored. My brain easily picks up stuff better when I have a mentor/professional teach me what I am doing wrong. If was to read a book to change oil, I would have no fukking clue what it was talking about. I am a hands on guy, I cannot read a book to learn.
exactly. People learn differently but the system forces everyone to learn and retain information one way which puts many at a disadvantage.
Some of the higher level of education is really stripping us from our humanity.
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There is three ways to learn. Be tought it, watch it be done, do it for yourself. Most schools force the first one on students so if you are the other two you're left out. Thats why you have bright kids dropping out.School isn't about you understanding or being successful with the material. Its about them being able to say they trained you to go to the next level of life.
Mhm. I understand some people learn from books, but for me, and why I had low grades D-B+ range... alot of the material was take the book home and make your answers. Math, English, Foreign Language was my worse but Computer Science, Gym and Social Studies were my best subjects.
exactly. school used to be a place where people can expand their minds in many ways, but things some how have shifted. k-12 school is a daycare that gives homework and college is an expensive service that gives you a receipt that is supposed to warrant you a career/job.
The system does not produce a conducive learning experience for many.
But then again I have this idea that the education system isnt about creating better more intelligent people, its about creating and conditioning everyone to operate in a certain way..... like a robot. SOmeone who cannot think for themselves, someone to cannot make decisions, someone who looks to others for their needs, etc.
just a theory.
I hated learning Foreign Language.
the extreme nightmares.
Well see that's where the L comes from for me.
I am half mexican... and while I got a solid B on the subject... my dad was sorta
I mean I understood at the time he had to work the graveyard, but he could have taught me some of the stuff earlier in life
