jaymeb reviewed Out of Our Minds by Ken Robinson
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5 stars
We are not teaching our children how to be creative, but teaching them how not to be creative...I'm paraphrasing, of course...Ken Robinson stated in a more eloquent and thought-provoking way. Basically, he writes about how the educational system is broken and how we need to change it to foster creativity. Some readers who gave this book a bad review point out that he doesn't really write about how we can tap into our creativity. I think that's kind of his point...our formal education has taken away our ability to be truly creative (not all of us, I'm sure, but still)and now we're trying to find instructions from a book on how to do it. My son isn't going to come up to me in a few years and say, "Hey, mom...what can I do with this cardboard box?" No, he's going to look at a cardboard box and say, "Cool! …
We are not teaching our children how to be creative, but teaching them how not to be creative...I'm paraphrasing, of course...Ken Robinson stated in a more eloquent and thought-provoking way. Basically, he writes about how the educational system is broken and how we need to change it to foster creativity. Some readers who gave this book a bad review point out that he doesn't really write about how we can tap into our creativity. I think that's kind of his point...our formal education has taken away our ability to be truly creative (not all of us, I'm sure, but still)and now we're trying to find instructions from a book on how to do it. My son isn't going to come up to me in a few years and say, "Hey, mom...what can I do with this cardboard box?" No, he's going to look at a cardboard box and say, "Cool! A pirate ship! Aaarrrrghhh!" How am I going to foster that when all I see is a cardboard box? A fascinating read. I highly recommend it.
