Sir Ken Robinson Talk

Creativity is indeed something that is not as prevalent in education as it was two hundred years ago, but look at what we have achieved without its prevalence. If I am in a car accident and am in need of immediate surgery, I can rest assured knowing the person operating on me spent years in difficult classes with professors that "live inside their heads" to get to where he is. If the focus in education is moved toward the arts too much, then the curriculum for a discipline like medicine, for instance, may not require such rigorous training.

I am not saying that things like music and dance are not important to molding a well rounded person. I am simply saying they should not become the most important thing in education. Sir Ken Robinson makes a good point when he said that public education was created to support industrialization; and now that I think about it, grade school was very similar to a factory to build a person from a child to an adult ready to work. This was quite controversial.