As September approaches rapidly again and those who (like my partner) work in education, or are of school age, start to consider the months ahead and the day to day life of school. My school experience was not one I'd wish on anyone. As a creative, partially dyslexic child with a neurodysfunction for taking on information, school was tortuous - although at the time no-one would have diagnosed this, I was just stupid and consequently bottom of every class.
I was at school in the 60's, and I know times have changed, and for me, there is still a huge percentage of the education system which is based on learning of facts and information and creativity often gets pushed into 2nd or 3rd place. Even my partner working in the primary system of today has very little time for art, music and general creativity in comparison to maths and science for example,and it often gets 'worse' in secondary education.
I found this great Ted Talks video, Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity? which although 5 years old, gives weight my thoughts, so I wanted to share it with you. I was interested to hear him discuss the hierarchy of subjects, and then the hierarchy within the Arts subjects themselves - especially as both my partner and I 'once upon a time' were lecturers in Performing Arts. It's also very,very funny and makes us think about how creative children naturally are - do we nurture or block that creativity in how we educate them? So from one very creative blogger, who has to move to think...... I hope this gets you thinking, and maybe understanding more about the differences in all of us.
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