Comments on: Schools kill creativity

By: wannasay

wannasay — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 16:23:50 +0000

Well if america truly celebtates and values creativity, hollywood wouldnt b do formulaic snd that more black kids can excel in school instead of peddling drugs or shootin each other. And how do the american media label people with non mainstream views? Conspiracy theorists. And how did they get fooled by bush in his wmd rhetoric to vote him in despite his inadequacy? And how creative was it to get government to rescue troubled banks?

By: Teo Wei Yong

Teo Wei Yong — Sat, 31 May 2008 18:31:11 +0000

Singaporeans are always quick to blame Western mentality to the negative and always think that we are the ‘Sh*t’. We have been so stifled in our own fears and arrogance to the point we’re running around in delusional circles and always coming up with excuses that always insipidly points towards our “unique identity”, regardless of whether we are even capable of knowing whether it’s bad or good. Another problem is also there are no philosophy subjects in our secondary and junior college curriculums, maybe because the government fears that philosophy opens minds and will cause us to question authority. Yet we promote every single minor achievement in the newspapers like it’s the biggest thing in the world, and ‘every small step is a step’. While that may be true, it can also be a dangerous notion to fall into given our ‘unique’ tendency to give way to any notion that aids and abets our own fears.

I suggest instead of falling back DEPENDENTLY on things like “aiyah, everywhere is the same la” , “everything got pros and cons so we don’t have to do much about it”, “aiyah what to do?”, “actually everywhere got bad things one la so we’re ok” – maybe we should occasionally try the proverbial, not political, “F*ck everything else, let’s SAY something HONEST!”

We can all keep saying “there’s good things about us as well as bad things”, but let’s try “fine, let’s DO something about the bad things”, instead of depending on ‘angle and perspective’ to make ourselves feel better….personally I feel that’s one of the major things holding back human beings in fear….1 person say this and 20 others say “it depends…” it won’t work.

By: hilary

hilary — Fri, 30 May 2008 23:35:30 +0000

SIR KEN ROBINSON YOU ARE FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT OF GOD. WHICH IS WHY U UNDERSTAND BASIC NATURE, SIR!

By: Zheng Xi

Zheng Xi — Wed, 28 May 2008 06:38:49 +0000

Mark Twain said it best:
‘I try not to let my schooling get in the way of my education’.

By: Currently Spared

Currently Spared — Tue, 27 May 2008 17:16:19 +0000

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
– Albert Einstein

By: Rachel Zeng

Rachel Zeng — Tue, 27 May 2008 17:05:57 +0000

Yea and I am trying to advocate home schooling here in Singapore but no one would listen. People think of institutions as a good place to make their kids ‘normal’. Hahahaa oh well but there are always pros and cons to everything. It is the problem solving that can erase the cons. If I am to hold a seminar for parents, showing this video, they will probably agree but conclude at the same time that the Sir Ken Robinson was presenting his opinions to a Western audience and it does not apply in the Singaporean context.

What rubbish.

By: Saint Splattergut

Saint Splattergut — Tue, 27 May 2008 16:53:28 +0000

That was beautiful. Thank you.