Ken Robinson's talk

In his speech Ken Robinson is willing to show that the Academic system destroys student's creatrivity where it should improve it. All the educational systems throughtout the world have some common caracteristics. In all countries sciences and languages are more valued than humanities. Even in art teatching their are some discriminations : drawing and music are considered more useful than drama or danse.
Why is that to be changed ? Because creativity is one of the most valuable quality of human inteligence. It can be developed by taking into account the diversity of inteligence. It is obvious that a youg person with difficulties in mathematics or foreign languages is not facing an intelligence problem, he just needs to find his way.
That is not allowed by the actual education system. Indeed this one is designed to form academic writers and teatchers. But even for them, a better system would be the one who combines different subjects to respond to human brain which gains creativity by associating different matters.

The first thing I want to point out is that this presentation is so British. Indeed, while dealing with a very serious theme, K. Robinson use a lot of humor as well as personal examples. This makes this lecture very easy to follow.

I agree with Sir Robinson when he explains that creativity should be more expanded in school. I also agree that art classes should be more present.

But he goes too far in some points he is definding. Indeed he takes examples of people who have true and deep passion ( as the ballet dancer) but don't deal with those who don't identify their passion so young. It is undoutable that for a personn with no specific talent, math and foreign languages would offer a lot of job opportunitites as well as it will help him to let everything open in case he has a sudden passion for a specific area.

So, from my point of view the more important in school system is orientation. You want to be sure that everyone is following the right career. As long as you don´'t know what to do you should follow the general carreer; but at anytime you should be able to join the specific carrer you want.