{"id":25259,"date":"2011-01-28T16:41:56","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T00:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=25259"},"modified":"2011-01-29T22:24:38","modified_gmt":"2011-01-30T06:24:38","slug":"do-schools-kill-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/25259","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Creativity is as important as literacy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"400\" height=\"325\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iG9CE55wbtY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/25026\">&#8216;Sir Ken Robinson<\/a> makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Traditional education is set up to suck creativity out of us; discourage independent thought. Teaches us to follow many procedures, many <em>rules.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And I see the results of this every day that I&#8217;m in a classroom. By the time students get to the college level, creativity is often simply <em>turned off.<\/em> Ken Robinson addresses this (above) &#8211; the importance of making mistakes &#8211; and more.<\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"'Creativity is as important as literacy'\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/25259\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.&#8217; Traditional education is set up to suck creativity out of us; discourage independent thought. Teaches us to follow many procedures, many rules. And I see the results of this every day that I&#8217;m in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,49,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finds","category-education","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25259"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25355,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25259\/revisions\/25355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}