Sir Ken Robinson: The Importance of Creativity

After watching this video, I would agree with Sir Ken Robinson about how important it is to allow children to be creative growing up. The way school systems are structured, does not allow children to be able to express their creativity or imagination. Being a education major, I find this is a serious issue and is very important. I feel that people start there children in preschool putting pressure on them to be academically ready for some ivy league school. When you are in preschool your brain is not even fully developed. Let kid's be kid's, they should be playing with blocks or coloring. If parents want to help there children while they are young, start by reading books to them. Those children who are read to at a young age have multiple opportunities to open their minds to creative thinking. Sparking a child's imagination is allowing them to learn they can do anything. Most teachers and parents forget that every child does not learn the same. The way class material is taught to children, is to teach the whole class one way an if a child gives a different answer then it is marked wrong. In my opinion it gives children the idea, they can't be creative.