This video I think that has made me think about what was before also my thoughts but reinforced by the speech: The educational system is being controlled by interests.
Not only creativity is being abolished, but also the education quality and equality. The selection of the called ‘most intelligent’ don’t let those who don’t pass the tests imposed be analyzed and create a program by which these problems could be transformed into improvement ones.
That’s why, I think that Sir Ken Robinson has this conception of the school, and more now, that one of the main purposes of the society and then, the educational system, is educating in order to be what is considered productive, the artistic and creatively part is absolutely unnecessary.
The new concept of education should let children, considering their age and a set of variables and factors chose between different options, in which they were able to develop their talents, that lots of times, because the problems Sir Ken argues, don’t come into light because there are no possibilities of this to occur.
From my point of view, this was interesting because has discovered us a new author or thinker who is very influent in the education nowadays, and most of all, because as I have studied arts, I take this debate as something personal, because from the inside, I know how important is that you have the opportunity to make what makes you really happy and develop a personal self-image, more at these age where children are not secure and still don’t know what do they want to study for their future and only focuses on the present, but, how are they going to know what do they like if we don’t show them all the possible ways?
This video has shown me that people like Sir Ken Robinson, are still defending the possibility to choose instead of others doing it for you.