After watching the Sir Ken Robinson video, I immediately started thinking of different ways to incorporate the arts into my classroom. I once heard a story in my technology class, this semester, about a little boy who was continually told how to do and make everything according to his teacher's preferences. At the end of the year, the teacher allowed the class to make whatever they wanted, but the little boy had become trained so well to do what his teacher did, that all he could make was a replica of the red rose his teacher made at the beginning of the year. Sir Ken Robinson stated that educators and society has said that being wrong is bad, but if you aren’t prepared to be wrong, you won’t come up with anything creative. I think as teachers, we want our students to produce the right answer so badly that we teach them a lesson, give them a textbook, and expect them to regurgitate the answer on paper. Unfortunately, this does not prepare students for the real world at all.
The world forces you to make decisions based on answers you have searched for and thought about. Thinking is where creativity comes from! If we don’t allow our students to think for themselves and develop their own ideas, we force them into a world of right and wrong/success and failure. In the movie Meet The Robinsons, the Robinson family builds their life motto around the celebration of failure. For without failure, there would be no great ideas or inventions. I hope to be a teacher that promotes creativity in everything my students do. Facts are necessary, but when assigning projects, why not let the students incorporate their own ideas and use them? I think if education promoted more creativity, the world would be an incredibly different place, and there may even be more world peace… Creativity opens the door to openness and acceptance of diversity. If creativity were to begin in the classroom, it would inevitably flow beyond the school doors into real life! Creativity could change the world!
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