School is the institution dedicated to the instruction of the young members of society: children. In that sense, is in school where people start to receive all the knowledge and values that they require to live and be useful for society. But there’s a problem that makes a big contradiction in this point: how does it considerate individual’s interests and abilities?
Obviously, school must be the place where we can develop all our abilities and learn how to use the type of intelligence that every one of us has. So, educational system should be able to offer satisfaction in an individual level, besides to respond to the social interests. The problem is resuming to individual v/s structure problem, and it supposes that school can conciliate these two poles, providing education and instruction to every one, letting us to develop our capacities while these are useful for our society.
But why school would be killing creativity? According to Ken Robinson the conflictive point is not in the institution of school, but it is in the structure of society, based only in the productive and intellectual knowledge, serving just for economic and scientific proposes. In this sense, artistic and humanities abilities are not in the first places of the hierarchy and according to that, these areas are sub valuated and school doesn’t concern to develop it. In that way, children that wants and have to dedicated their lives to artistic professions and occupation are limited by all the social structure, because being an artist or an actor or a writer, at first place doesn’t make them win a lot of money, and at second place this is not considerate in school like a real ability or a type of intelligence, just because it is not associated to intellectual or economic-productive activities.
Resuming: we live in a cruel society. It is cruel whit people that has a different way to learn and different interests; people that has a different type of knowledge.
We should try to change this, first valuating artistic activities like real jobs. Just look where singers and actors of our country are: in Transantiago buses or in subway station, doing their “jobs” for a couple of coins, just because they are not intellectual people or business man.
We should think about it and learn to accept differences in all senses.
Obviously, school must be the place where we can develop all our abilities and learn how to use the type of intelligence that every one of us has. So, educational system should be able to offer satisfaction in an individual level, besides to respond to the social interests. The problem is resuming to individual v/s structure problem, and it supposes that school can conciliate these two poles, providing education and instruction to every one, letting us to develop our capacities while these are useful for our society. But why school would be killing creativity? According to Ken Robinson the conflictive point is not in the institution of school, but it is in the structure of society, based only in the productive and intellectual knowledge, serving just for economic and scientific proposes. In this sense, artistic and humanities abilities are not in the first places of the hierarchy and according to that, these areas are sub valuated and school doesn’t concern to develop it. In that way, children that wants and have to dedicated their lives to artistic professions and occupation are limited by all the social structure, because being an artist or an actor or a writer, at first place doesn’t make them win a lot of money, and at second place this is not considerate in school like a real ability or a type of intelligence, just because it is not associated to intellectual or economic-productive activities.
Resuming: we live in a cruel society. It is cruel whit people that has a different way to learn and different interests; people that has a different type of knowledge.
We should try to change this, first valuating artistic activities like real jobs. Just look where singers and actors of our country are: in Transantiago buses or in subway station, doing their “jobs” for a couple of coins, just because they are not intellectual people or business man.
We should think about it and learn to accept differences in all senses.
You are right that an individual is v/s structure problem, and all society is educated in the same system, therefore this ends in a vicious circle
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