Standing Ovation: Reading Response #4

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Reading Response #4

Svetlana Golovach
Eng. 100
Anna Wolff
Reading Response #4
02.09.11

Why do schools in today’s society ignore creativity? This was basically the main topic in Sir Ken Robinson’s video about education. Those schools are making students be afraid of making mistakes when in reality we all make mistakes and without making mistakes people wouldn’t be creative in the first place. Therefore I think that it is crucial for the schooling system or routine to be changed and for people to have a chance to be creative. I agree with Robinson that the schooling system is taking away students creativity and making students be afraid of making mistakes because in my experience I do agree with this. I have noticed that whenever I make a mistake the teachers seems to make a big deal about it. I think that every single person on this planet makes mistakes therefore it shouldn’t be considered as a big deal.
What I think Sir Ken Robinson means by dance being as important as neuroscience is that schools today are placing math and languages before drama and dancing. He is saying that not everyone is going to want to major is math or any kind of sciences because there are people out in the world who are dancers, creative and love drama but aren’t getting “the spotlight.” I do most definitely agree with him because I am personally a very artsy and creative person and I do feel that it’s not that important every time I walk into my High School. I had signed up for Art classes ever year of High School and was never put in it. Whether it might have been bad luck or not, I didn’t feel like Art was that important even though I knew inside that it was my passion. I do hope that one day it will be one of the important subjects in school and people will go with what they love instead of what they have to love. I think that by doing this, people will start to see changes not only in schools but in the community. There might be amazing dancers that finally get to dance and artist that get to publish their work and all sorts of other amazing things we never had the chance to see as much as people would love to. The teachers would have to shift their attention of the subjects they were being taught are most important, and start giving their attention to other very important subjects that haven’t been brought out the way they should have been.
Sir Ken Robinson states in his video that, “Education takes us into future we cannot grasp.” I love this quote because it makes me think very deeply about our future and how schooling today affects it or the effects of it. I think if the schooling system were to change then people would see many changes in their communities like, more artistic displays, more jobs and people just being more happier in general. Therefore, I hope there will be a change in society soon and I hope people will get the best education they possibly can in their lifetime.

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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?
As students of Eng 100, you will use this blog to begin conversations with other academic writers on campus (students and instructors alike). We become active readers of each other’s writing when we comment on posts here. And, best of all, we are using this space to share ideas! I encourage you to use this blog to further think through the topics and writing strategies you will be introduced to this quarter. As always, be sure to give credit to those people whose ideas you borrow for your own thinking and writing (you should do this in the blog by commenting on their post, but you will also be required to cite what you borrow from your peers/instructors if and when it winds up in your essays. More details on that later).
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