Today, im going to write a summary about a conference by Ken Robinson.
Ken Robinson introduces his speech with
important themes about creativity and education. After that he start to talk
about different cases that shows examples of what he is talking about. He talks
about the importance of education, because it’s very important for the future.
So the examples or stories that he talks about are all related to children,
because there is the beginning of education, creativity and the future. Because
he said children have an extraordinary capacity of innovation. Ken Robinson thinks
that creativity has the same importance that math or literacy. He says that we
can make mistakes, we can be wrong, and that it’s not the same than be
creative. The thing is that we have to know how to get out of that mistake,
like the children in the stories did. And there is where the innovations come,
when we have to improve, that is the “plus” that children have, but then when
they grow up that kind of things was left behind. So, he try to say, that
people who works in education must be alert to that kind of signs in children
and support them, not stigmatized their mistakes. Also he say that with the
time, the society its worried more about the “head” than the “body”, because it’s
more important a class of math, that a class of dance for example. And that it’s
something that must be change. He says that its necessary rethink the concept
of intelligence. So, we need to think in the future, future that maybe we didn’t
see, but other will be.
I think that he is right. I never have seen this point of view about education and creativity, and I found very interesting. Now I'm going to search more information about Ken Robinson and his idea of education.

