Creativity In Schools

Ken Robinson has been speaking widely for the need of change in the school, and the lack of creativity with in the education in schools. he mentions that " Why do they have to teach math, and not dance? Kids dance all the time..". Robinson looks more deeply into what creativity is, and how schools might better it. Creativity, he says, is the making of “original ideas that have value.” It should not be the special domain of a particular echelon of teachers; instead we should find ways to catalyze creativity broadly, systematically. Currently, we do the opposite. Developing new curriculum resources on creativity will help people have creativitly with some kind of value. Rather, because the “heart of education…is pedagogy,” improving teaching is the way to improve schools. As organizations of humans, we have to pay attention to how they are managed to nurture creativity and imagination sustainable sustainably. “The organization is the people. Their relationships, their motivations, their energy, their values, their aspirations or lack of them. It’s a living breathing thing.”