- In Sir Ken Robinson's "Do Schools Kill Creativity", the talk discussed the education system and it's way of teaching children out of their creativity. Robinson was able to not only get his message across, that schools should teach the whole person to their full potential, but also persuade the audience to take in the scenarios that he talked about. He kept the audience as well as I engaged with his continuous humor. I couldn't stop laughing and I was into the talk the entire time. His belief that schools who take the same effort that is put in teaching math and science and apply it into teaching the arts will enhance both their intellectual ability and creativity.
- Robinson implied ethos when he told of his experience moving from England to Los Angeles. He noticed that everywhere he went no matter where in the world the education system has the same hierarchy of subjects. He said that"first it's mathematics and languages, the humanities, and at the bottom are the arts". I learned that there's even a hierarchy within the arts. He's had experience in education working as a University Professor. This ties in to him showing pathos by making the audience laugh. He talks about how schools only teach kids from their waist up to their heads and slightly to one side. "The sole purpose of education around the world is to produce University professors. They're the ones that live in their heads and slightly to obe side. They're disembodied. I would know, I used to be one of them",pointed Robinson. He then explained how in a meeting while listening to discotech they're "writing uncontrollably, off the beat. They can't wait to leave so they can write a paper about it". He showed Logos when claimed from research that There was no real public school system before the 19th century, that it all came to meet the standards of industrialism.
- Throughout the talk I began to think about Georgia's Education system and came to the conclusion that its school system is similar to what Robinson was talking about. Schools program students brain in a way that strips away their imagination and uniqueness of their being. Robinson told a famous quote. "If all the insects were to dissapear fromthe earth, within 50 years all life on earth would end. If all humans were to dissapear from the earth, within 50 years all life on earth would flourish". He expressed that society needs to reinvent a new form of human ecology, one that sees people's creativity for the richness they are and seeing children for the hope that they are. He wants educators to teach the children for their entire body and potential and prepare them for the future that they will make because those students are the ones that will see this future. The job of schools educating them is to help them make it through to that future.