IDEATE : CREATE : INNOVATE: Do Schools Kill Creativity

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Do Schools Kill Creativity

This is a wonderful video from TED.com that was recommended by one of my readers/commenters. Thanks to him, I have a better appreciation of what education is all about, and about what creativity and intelligence really mean. It will take time to revolutionise the mankind's mental models on what education is all about, but unless we try and do something about it, we will never ever get to celebrate fully the hope that our children bring into our lives, from their education. Clip taken from here. Enjoy...

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About me

I am an educator and a firm believer in shaping each child to his or her fullest potential. I believe that each should be exposed to the many myriads of professions and subject matter as s/he possibly can, and then to work from there to see how her/his potential can be realised. I am a firm believer in leveraging technology to deepen the students' learning in and out of the classrooms, and then to nurture them to be active citizens, and (co)creators of content.

I love photography, especially photo-journalistic works, and subscribes to the idea that each photo tells a deeper story. You can check some of my works in my Behance profile.

I love to travel whenever I have the opportunity, and am wishing that I can tick off all the places that I want to visit in my bucket list.

A firm believer and practitioner of design thinking, I love the idea that design, in its many forms, should be about the people, their experiences, the exploring of the many design facets that are embedded and intrinsic to making something well-designed, regardless whether it is a physical product, or a digital artefact for the web.

irfan