Analysis Of Ken Robinson's Speech On Do Schools Kill Creativity
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After having the opportunity to hear Ken Robinson’s speech Do Schools Kills Creativity? and Michael Steven’s speech How Much Does a Video Weigh? it is easy to see that these two speeches have something in common and a some things in difference. In the first speech Ken Robinson Tries to warn us that public schools across the world are perhaps killings kids’ ability to create and he makes plenty of valid points to justify this argument. In the Second Speech Michel Stevens uses science to tell us how much a video weighs and the answer is in fact is fascinating. Robinson’s speech appears to be extemporaneous and its purpose is to persuade the audience that public education could be killing creativity. Robinson begins his speech with a joke, in fact he…show more content… Then he begins to make his points. One of the first thing he argues is that nobody knows what the future will be in 5 years, and yet we claim to be education people for the future. He also argues that everybody is good at different things, and yet universally we are teaching the same subject. The example he uses is dance vs math. Math is thought throught the universally and Dance is not. Therefore in a way we are discouraging kids who are good at dancing from developing their talents. Another arguments that he makes is that creativity can only be achieve by taking chances, but by taking chances we are more likely to make mistakes, and the education systems punishes mistakes heavily. He makes these points in a very slow and friendly ton, his pronunciation of every world is very slow and clear. This truly makes it very easy for us to fallow his idea. I think this was a very successful method for his presentation, because it makes the audience think about this issue. I personally, found myself thinking that he’s got some great points, we always