Standing Ovation: Ken Robinson Response

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Ken Robinson Response

I think that when Robinson says that creativity and dance should be as important in education as literacy and neuroscience he means that society should stop crushing the creativity we are born with but embrace it. Everyone, as Robison says, learns differently and expresses their knowledge in different ways. Not one person is completely alike by nature so why should the education systems of the world try to force us to be that way? If you really want kids, people, to live to their full potential you must first embrace them for them, not for the dream you or their parents have in mind. I think Robinson is making such big and potentially provocative claims because he sees what the world could be if humans weren’t determined to succeed in just science, literature, and math. He has witnessed people own life and live it to the fullest just because they themselves, or someone for them, spoke up and said…”She’s not sick, she’s a dancer.” Someone cared to notice what was really going on in their mind and instead of shutting it down and saying, “there’s no way to get a job doing that,” they said something as simple as, “I believe in you.” Clearly I agree with everything Robinson’s said. In my mind he’s right. Everyone is different and each one of us has a special gift that if at least one person, or even an education system, noticed and encouraged them to follow their heart they could really make it somewhere as opposed to getting a degree and going home to play video games. In the time we had I didn’t get around to what it would take in society for us to value, or embrace, these things similarly.

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Penguin18February 9, 2011 at 4:57 PM
I like your response because I most definitely agree with it. Everyone likes their own thing and the schools are just not letting that happen. Therefore,I do think that schools should start taking their time and valuing students creativity whether it be in dancing, drama or any other subject.
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JuarezFebruary 9, 2011 at 5:02 PM
I think so too beacuse the education system is making students think that they are dumb. In a way wwere they are forced to be educated a certain way that they might not understand. I think that if creativity is allowed in schools it would surely motivate students more.
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Welcome to our Eng 100 Blog “Standing Ovation”! The title of this blog refers to the audience of active readers we are creating by sharing our academic writing for Eng 100 with a larger group of students, instructors, academics, and just about anybody who chooses to follow our blog! When you write and post your reader responses here (and, later, as you write your essays for the course), I encourage you to use this audience to conceptualize who you are writing for and, most important, how to communicate your ideas so that this group of academic readers and writers can easily follow your line of thinking. Think about it this way: What do you need to explain and articulate in order for the other bloggers to understand your response to the essays we’ve read in class? What does your audience need to know about those essays and the authors who wrote them? And how can you show your readers, in writing, which ideas you add to these “conversations” that take place in the texts we study?
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