Education Revolution
This video
was my favorite thing from this week. He had so many interesting things to say
that were truly awesome. I’m a lover of good quotes and this guy sure had quite
a few to add to my ever-growing 15 page word document of quotes. When Robinson
said, “We don’t need evolution of education, we need revolution”, I was
instantly intrigued. He then went further into how education shouldn’t be
mechanized. People need to be allowed to release their creative sides and not
stick strictly to conformity of society. While this is true so we don’t have a
homogenous society, I think this could cause some problems. I don’t think we
need to go all Hitler Nazi with conformity, but I do think that standardized
education is necessary. It makes sure that we each know basic things about our
world and immediate environments. If we just let everyone do whatever they
wanted in being “creative”, we would have world chaos. This is where I think arts
in schools are super important. However, I’m not a teacher and don’t plan on
becoming one, so I may have this all wrong.
Seeing the Text
The next
thing that I really enjoyed was the Bernhardt essay. One of the very first
things that the author said got me thinking before I could even move on to the
next sentence. He wrote, “…writing heightens awareness of categories and
divisions, changing the ways people conceive classificatory relations.” This
definitely related back to the Education
Revolution video for me in the sense of creativity. Writing is truly an
art. It can be used to spark interest, opinion, influence thought, perceive
beauty, and so many other things. A skilled writer must know the audience and,
generally speaking, how they will respond to their writing. Bernhardt went into
4 laws of gestalt that really seemed to make sense to be in any sort of
writing, whether I’m the writer or the reader. Writing has to be formulaic, and
a good writer will see where it’s going and what it will be doing. That is basically
how I translated the author’s points.
The Thomas
Goetz video and the Godin videos were also equally amazing. Everything that we’ve
read for this week have certainly related back to creativity. This theme has
been really fun to explore and all of our readings and videos have been
awesome. I’m really excited to go through these discussions and blogs with all
of you for this week!
I was wondering while reading your post how you want to add, control, or let take flight in the world around you through your writing? Is there a special niche you would like to fill or a story you feel has not been told accurately?
ReplyDeleteOnly 15 pages of quotes huh? Glad I'm not the only one who does that, though I'll assume I have more words from far left politicians and Russian writers in my collection? And my problem is I can rattle off a bunch from memory. I'd like to comment on your theoretical world chaos statement, which I also liked. Some structure is important, and there are vital positions that must be filled by students entering, and already in, 'the system.' I would think that any curriculum must contain information applicable in current fields, in which 'creativity' may or may not be valued. Also, with conformity, group behavior is something I want to study one day. Some funky stuff happens as humans attempt to relate to one another and form groups, I think. And I like your observation about the number of languages TED talks are available in. I feel they tend to be pretty impressive, I've been fortunate to have several professors assign material from that site.
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