Sir Ken Robinson starts of with an important matter, saying that we are educating our children with the abilities of the 19th century, with the past. We are trying to educate our children in the 21st century, but how will we predict the economy for their knowledge. Yet he goes on saying “we don’t even know what will the economy be like be the end of next week”. This bring up the question on how will we actually do it? As he says I think we need to ‘wake them up to what they have inside of them’, give problems that get them engaged and therefore provoke them to think, but not only think the way we were taught but to think and be able to get different ideas, creative ideas, different solutions and ways to manage, by using divergent thinking, which Sir Ken Robinson describes as “the ability to see different possible solutions, see multiple answers’. When we teach the kids how to create and think outside the box then will they be prepared to face the economy 10, 20, 30 years from now. Me as a kindergarten teacher, as he says, I am working with geniuses, and wouldn’t like to be held responsible for having them lose this capacity (which he says we all have but have lost by being educated) because of the way we teach!!! (it seems to be going backwards!) By experiencing creativity and having them get interested and engaged I think we have a good chance for them to continue having a high percentage of their genius self.
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