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    Schools both foster and limit creativity according to the speakers. Sir Ken Robinson argues that schools stifle creativity by focusing only on academic subjects and standardizing learning. Tim Leunig counters that knowledge gained in school provides the foundation for creative thinking in various fields. While structure may constrain some creativity, gaining knowledge exposes students to new ideas and ways of understanding the world that can spark creativity. Overall, schools play an important role in nurturing creativity if they provide both knowledge and opportunities for creative expression and diverse thinking.

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    Schools both foster and limit creativity according to the speakers. Sir Ken Robinson argues that schools stifle creativity by focusing only on academic subjects and standardizing learning. Tim Leunig counters that knowledge gained in school provides the foundation for creative thinking in various fields. While structure may constrain some creativity, gaining knowledge exposes students to new ideas and ways of understanding the world that can spark creativity. Overall, schools play an important role in nurturing creativity if they provide both knowledge and opportunities for creative expression and diverse thinking.

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    Creativity TED Talks

    The argument of if schools foster or kill creativity is one for the ages. View these TedTalks from
    both sides of the spectrum and answer the questions below. Expand thoughtfully in all of your
    answers!

    Before Watching

    1. How do you define creativity?


    Creativity is the ability to imagine/invent unique ideas.

    2. Do you consider yourself a creative person? What has your experience been in school
    with creativity?
    I would consider myself a creative person. Whenever we are asked to write or draw something,
    or whenever there is a need for ideas, I always think of something or another. Especially when
    it involves writing or drawing, because I love to do both and always have ideas that I want to
    write/draw about.

    3. Do you think schools kill creativity or do they foster creativity? Explain.


    I think that many times, schools kill creativity because they are required to adhere to a
    structure that allows knowledge to be tested and graded. Because of that limitation, and the
    pressure that it puts on both students and teachers, it kills creativity, and has to require the
    teacher to think of ways to engage creativity but also allow them to grade.

    While Watching

    Take lots of notes for each video and identify the claim, purpose, and evidence of each!

    Do Schools Kill Creativity? Why Real Creativity is Based on Knowledge


    Sir Ken Robinson Tim Leunig

    Claim: Schools educate creativity out of kids. Claim: Schools are equipping kids with
    knowledge to be creative; creativity is based
    on knowledge.

    Purpose: To ask the people who are running Purpose: To defend that schools help kids be
    the education system and society in general more creative by giving them knowledge to
    to teach kids holistically, and foster creativity base their creativity on.
    rather than continue the way it is; to reform
    the education system
    Evidence: Every education system has the Evidence: The person who thought through
    same hierarchy of subjects. Education only crop rotation allowed people to do other
    focuses on the minds rather than the whole things and invent while being fed. The
    body. Our education system is predicated on invention of steam power allowed so many
    the needs for industrial professions and other inventions to be made, and is creative
    academic ability. Most people are graduating thinking based on knowledge. Even arts are
    now, so degrees are starting to not matter based on knowledge. Knowledge allows you
    anymore. The most useful subjects are at the to better understand the world and things
    top. The things kids are good at are you want to pursue. Knowledge is important
    stigmatized at school, so many kids think they to be a good citizen and person.
    aren’t intelligent. Academic inflation is
    happening. Intelligence is diverse.
    Intelligence is dynamic. Intelligence is
    distinct.

    After Watching

    1. Does how we define “creativity” matter? Do Robinson and Leunig have the same
    definition? Explain.
    The way we define creativity encourages us to put importance on subjects/ways to foster it.
    The way we define it leads to the ways we maintain it. Both speakers have the same definition
    of creativity, that it arises from different ways that we experience and view the world. They
    both agree that schools focus on the minds. Just what importance that focus is is different.

    2. Do schools kill or foster creativity? With which speaker do you agree/disagree? Explain.
    I think schools give a foundation for creativity, by giving you knowledge in order to be creative.
    But it is true that many times that school’s structure limits the amount of creativity happening
    in the classroom. However, I don’t think that it completely squashes creativity, so I would have
    to agree with Leunig. The reason is that I love school, and the knowledge I learn from it inspires
    my creativity, as well as helps give me more inspiration. I don’t need school to help cultivate my
    creativity actively, and already does.

    3. Can creativity be taught? If so, how? What responsibility do schools have in the
    endeavor?
    Creativity itself can’t be taught, but the ability to cultivate creativity, and understand how to
    think creativity can be taught. Schools give you the foundation and specific tools path to pursue
    creativity, more so than just life in general. The way you look at the world and decipher it is
    greatly enhanced by school, and affects creativity.

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