Sir Ken Robinson, in his talk, "Do schools kill creativity?" has a bold statement to make: creativity should be treated, in the educational systems, as importantly as literacy. Kids are not afraid to being wrong; they are always willing to take chances, and that's what an ideal educational system should exploit. And the truth is: the fear to being wrong is engraved to them in our schools. There isn't a real focus on other activities that don't involve intellectual development.
Sir Ken Robinson argues that current educational systems were designed in the 19th century with a purpose in mind: to turn everyone into a "university professor", or, at least, into someone with a degree. Educational systems don't take into account the tremendous leaps in our understanding of how human brain works, that happened in the 20th and 21th century. And maintaining those educational systems in their current fashion is unsustainable.
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Hi María Paz, excellent work.
ReplyDeleteOnly one thing. You should say, "kids are not sfraid to BE WRONG".
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All aspects of the task are very well handled. 3 points.
Excellent use of lexical resources.
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Grammar is excellent and almost error-free.
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9 points. Final mark: 7.0.