People with creative minds are not stopped so easily... Are you the guy who drew in the school? in the university? if not, i think the education is not the problem here imho. I never have had artistic classes, and all my education = maths, physics & chemistry, etc. (science education, too boring) and i ended with…
No. It's kind of paranoid to think Danish and/or global education systems are out to suppress your creativity. Maybe they fail to encourage it, but no one is actively trying to keep you down. If anything, the emphasis is simply on developing future practical skills. You may not get much out of physics for example, but lots…
Hi, So I've recently been introduced two videos on the famous side TED that literately changed the way I look at education. The two videos in question are by Sir Ken Robinson, an english PhD in education(as far as I can see): The first is from 2006, and my guess would be that you guys may already have seen it:…
Here's a loose quote from Clive Barker: "The problem with the modern education system is, they are preparing you for a 40 hour work week, where your imagination must not be stimulated. Where you can't take time to exercise your imagination. There's a lot of good things about the education system, but this isn't one of…
Short answer is yes, that's what the evidence points to, especially in a broader context of public education. As some of the guys already said, it is generally understood (but not necessarily widely know in the public sense) that the education system is used to produce the kinds of 'workers' it needs. There's nothing…
My answer would be yes. But it's not like it's an evil conspiracy or something. It's just considered that children do not know what they want out of their lives. And I guess that the majority of people to go through schools will have no necessity in "creative" subjects later on in their lives. So it's kinda rational for…
Hmm.. I didn't get that from his post. He mentioned working in a visual medium multiple times, so I assumed that meant traditional art. Anyway, there might be something to formal education depending upon rote memorization. A lot of knowledge is just that - there's no room for abstract thinking in a history class or…
Does school really influence you guys that much? I dropped history, drawing and music as soon as I could and now I'm studying history at university, drawing a couple of pages a day, while listening to Bach. Those 7 years of high school equivalent left remarkably little. It's a bit cheap to blame it all on the educational…
Okay, kat, then let me ask this: in modern history, have schools ever emphasized imagination over rote learning? Einstein and Edison were both born in the middle of the 1800s, a century and a half ago, and the systems they were in didn't support them. Is the thinking here that education is now even less encouraging of…
That's a pretty good quote (loose or otherwise), but I think it overlooks the why. Barker's right about school preparing kids for the typical work week rather than 'imaginative' careers, but the world simply needs a lot more of those people. I don't think most basic educations should ignore imaginative learning, but it…