Jeff Li's Blog

I have recently watched a Ted talk by Sir Ken Robinson “Do School Kill Creativity” I was so inspired by his talk that I went on to read his book, “The Element”, which also talks about personal creativity and how our public education systems have “educated” us out of it.

In his Ted talk, Sir Robinson mainly focused on to inspire the audiences to rethink about our public education system. He believes that, which I couldn’t have agreed more on, our schools are designed to produce professor but do not nurture other talents. Our society as a whole is so keen on academic success that other success, such as success in visual arts, music, and theater are all suppressed to be viewed as less useful. This is especially true to the land where I grow up from. In China, even in elementary school, math and languages are rated much higher than other subjects. In grade 6, before attending middle school, students are basically only learning mathematics and Chinese for a full year to prepare for the entrance exam for middle school. Some students whose talents lies in the field of academics accels in this type of education system. But others, who perhaps need to move to think cannot reach their fullest potential in our current education system. And as a result, many of them perhaps takes longer or perhaps never find their “elements”

I encourage everyone who have viewed my blog to spend 18 minutes to view Ken Robinson’s ted talk “Do School Kill Creativity”, and to rethink about our education system.