Do Schools Today Kill Creativity? (Ken Robinson, TEDTalks)

In much of the Western world our mental teachings have been 'You don't mess around with your Father, you don't mess around with God'. Simply due to the view the Father said 'Eve ate the apple of knowledge which she shouldn't have' we have treated women with contempt...even today. Look at how women are harrassed around the world...are sadly abused...and not given the equal equality to life they should be entitled to. You only have to look at mens and womens wages (doing same job) to see this!

When I say God you may say I'm talking about something that seems completely irrelevant, but I am not. The idea of teaching creativity relates to how we ourselves have been created. Ask yourself why do those of us who are religious call God 'Our Father'? Why do you think we have a problem teaching 'creationism' thus creativity in schools? Because the father figure of God - a figure of authority - is a very powerful one.

You've done well my friend - at least your kids have been cared for. They are lucky to have such parents. But how many people can say they can do so like you, in this day and age? I never said money is not useful just that really, its not needed. You'd be surprised how much we can (seriously) get by life without money. As you said, some people think (like a cult) it is the ONLY thing which brings them happiness....and sadly its been the greedy that got us into this so-called credit mess.

Lots of unrelated questions but good ones.

yuch!

Good for you. And the adults that they trust pass on what was done to them. So education has to be creative to break the cycle.

If we are created in God's image than wouldn't we have creator's DNA as a creative entity? Is there not a pleasure in being able to play around and discover for oneself something of personal value. Why are infants curious to know because they want a good paying job?? Isn't it the process of being creative interacting with one's environment to extract meaning. Could depression be tied to our basic need to create being redirected into our over consumption of things we don't really need.

this god nonsense is most unhelpful.
"Whereof we cannot speak; thereof we must remain silent."
Please say something that is relevant to the real world!

actors passively entertain their audiences.
teacher must get their students to study and produce good work.
It is apples and oranges.

Don't kid yourself!
Without making a cult out of it, as many people do, let me say that having money is confidence building, liberating and fun. To be able to take care of your family well is most satisfying. Not to be able to afford this is awful.

I sent my three kids to university and they didn't have to borrow a penny. Aside from their beginning life liberated from debt, I took great satisfaction in that.

But you cannot have money and keep telling yourself the nonsense you do!

Teachers are usually mediocrities. Moreover, those who control education, the "educationalists" are the worse of the lot. They have made a sentimentalised cult out of children, and they have no respect for knowledge for its own sake. The have degraded education to fun and games in the name of creativity.
Education is worse now that it was 50 years ago.

Why are you flipping out on me like this--sinners born into sin all this religious crap. Children need to be taught respect and obedience to rules of behaviour. Otherwise the are their own worse enemies. The only children who do not like to be told what to do are those who have never been told what to do by adults whom they respect.

Focused self-discipline, which comes from having been disciplined, is the source of all creativity! If you don't know that, you have never been creative.

..and this..all stems back to the classroom. If you hadn't treated work as work, or kids as someone else's kids - but as your own - as a wonderful experience of joy in nurturing a soul (almost like bringing up a brother/sister - which is the truth about us all) the kids would have had no problem with you. In fact they would have more than likely have left the classroom in a happy state, eager for the next day's activities because they had a fantastic day.

....because they would see us all (including the adults), as a child of God. That nobody would have the answers to everything - but if we do things in a loving way, we would have.

How does human life come about? It is all by probability. Human life is extremely precious....and we have not been taught its preciousness in schools. That is why we have this problem of unruly children (and broken families).

We've been taught from the start we are sinners, we are born 'into sin', and that if we don't do as we're told in his world, we're gonna be damned. So as kids, we go through a rebellion when we're younger. Why? Because kids do not like to be told what to do.

However if we teach them 'We are not sinners, but we are here as a being of creation, as a child of God - to have fun in his world and in his co-creation of this world' - what do you think those children will do? We wouldn't need discipline