{"id":1384,"date":"2013-03-25T23:30:27","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T03:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio.purdue.edu\/lab\/leung\/blog\/?p=1384"},"modified":"2013-04-22T11:57:46","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T15:57:46","slug":"has-education-destroyed-our-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/has-education-destroyed-our-creativity\/","title":{"rendered":"Has education destroyed our creativity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I have got the privilege to share my research work with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bio.purdue.edu\/lab\/leung\/blog\/?p=1395\">secondary school students<\/a>. During the talk, it was obvious to me\u00a0 that the younger the students were, the more imaginative the questions that they could come up with and the more fearless they were in asking questions. One reason is that the eduction has often encouraged students to give the &#8220;right answer&#8221;; otherwise, they will not get good grades. So, when the students are growing up, they quickly learn how to shut up and only seek ways to give the &#8220;right answer&#8221;. That reminds me of several great talks by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ken_Robinson_%28educationalist%29\">Sir Ken Robinson<\/a> on education, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bio.purdue.edu\/lab\/leung\/blog\/?p=555\">a TED talk on how schools kill creativity <\/a>that I shared here before, and an RSA talk on Changing Education Paradigms. The latter is a very thought-provoking talk,\u00a0 and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thersa.org\/\">the RSA<\/a> has made a nicely animated version of the key part:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zDZFcDGpL4U\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/center>\u00a0The original talk is equally interesting:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mCbdS4hSa0s\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I have got the privilege to share my research work with secondary school students. During the talk, it was obvious to me\u00a0 that the younger the students were, the more imaginative the questions that they could come up with and the more fearless they were in asking questions. One reason is that the eduction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,1],"tags":[274,451,273,230],"class_list":["post-1384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-faisharing","tag-creativity","tag-education","tag-ken-robinson","tag-ted-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1384"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1419,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions\/1419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}