Please don’t kill my creativity.

Posted on June 7, 2013 by Meng Jo

I can’t remember anyone asking me to watch this video. But Mei Yih said a lecturer asked us to watch this video on our first year of BECH.

Introducing Sir Ken Robinson – The author of 2009 book, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything, a New York Times bestseller and has been translated into 21 languages. If you will watch the video (please do) you will find that Robinson is such an entertainer, he is funny and aspiring.

In this video, he talks about how school stigmatised children who make mistake. And that in turn “kills” creativity in children. He also added that because we’ve been educated to become good workers, rather than creative thinkers. Students with restless minds and bodies — far from being cultivated for their energy and curiosity — are ignored or even stigmatized, with terrible consequences.

“We are educating people out of their creativity,” Robinson says.

About Meng Jo

Hi, welcome to my gardening blog. I am Jo (pronounce as Joe). I live in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia. I started with my first plant, sunflower when I was 10, had it flowered and replanted the seeds produced. My passion for gardening continues ever since. My interests in a plant doesn't usually stops at flowering stage. I like to discover ways to propagate the plant and distribute the seedlings to my friends and relatives. I like to experiment with mixing soils for growing individual plant. I think I got this gardening "thing" from my mom since she is the only member of my family who will be willing to spend more than 5 minutes in the garden. I wanted to document my experience of gardening in this blog and share with the rest.
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