Sir Ken Robinson

Sir Ken Robinson has a point when he says that schools are killing children’s creativity.  Children are forced to sit through boring classes that are general.  Everyone has to take English, math, science and history even if they know that they are never going to use this in their future.  Children are being taught in order to meet the states standardized tests.  Every school has to do so well, so the children are taught to pass theses tests.   If any child, can’t sit still through the school day they are considered to have a disorder, ADHD.  They are put on medication so they are able to sit still and focus on the boring school day.  Back in the day, children who were like this were taken to the doctor’s.  Gillian Lynne is one of these children.  Her doctor however did something different, he told her mother to enroll her in dance class.  She was fidgeting around and couldn’t sit still because school was boring to her, she wanted to dance.  Gillian became a multi-millionaire and was very successful all because she was not put on medication when she couldn’t focus at school.  I think that this doctor did something amazing, he didn’t brush her off and give her medication.  If Gillian had grown up in present day, she most likely would have been give medication at an early age and perhaps her talent never would have been realized.  I think that Sir Ken Robinson has a good point and that we should listen to him and not try to diminish the creativity of the next generation of children.