After watching the Sir Ken Robinson's talk about how schools may kill creativity, a lot of ideas get into my mind. First of all, I think that it depends a lot of the kind of school we're talking about, because there're a lot of schools, maybe not in Chile but in other countries, that encourage the art's development in children. Actually, in other countries exist schools of art, and these allow the development of their artistic capacities, like musical, painting, dancing, etc. On the other hand, the "common" schools, just like Sir Robinson said, are made to "prepare" kids for College or University, so if a kid wants to be a doctor, for example, the school and his/her parents tend to distance him, o her, of arts, because "she's/he's not going to be a dancer, or a musician". Besides, it's very common that some parents and "conservative" schools teach children that arts, or even the humanistic careers are not "profitable", because they are not good paid...they teach that the only reason why you have to go to school and to University is to earn money.
I agree with Sir Robinson when he says that there are a lot of ways of understand the concept of "intelligence", there are kinds of intelligence, and different ways to see the world: that is to say, creativity exist and we don't have to kill it but promote it. If a person doesn't want to be a lawyer, or a doctor, or an engineer, or if a person doesn't like maths or language, or doesn't understand that subjects the answer is that she, or he has other kind of intelligence and wants to develope his or her creativity and the most important thing is that we have to be able to promote the childen's abilities. Maybe their abilities are not in maths, or science, but in music, painting, dancing or acting.
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