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Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish

We were said to check out Sir Ken Robinson and upon watching some YouTube videos I have to say, he really knows his trade. He has given me some food for thought with his "Do schools kill creativity?" speech and I have to admit I have never thought about our education system from this point of view. It got me thinking, and although I posess no power to change anything on that matter, I can at least write something about it.

Being wrong is apparently wrong

Pablo Picasso once said that all children are artists, but the problem is how to remain an artist once they grow up. One of the problems that cause this is the school and somewhat the society. When we were children, we did not care whether our ideas and intellectual products were wrong or right, we were just happy when we did it. Nowadays, on the other hand, we fear of being wrong, we fear what the society and our classmates might think of what we create and do. We should all keep in mind, that if we are not prepared to be wrong, we will never come up with anything original.

Why has not education caught up to the times?

When you look at today's education, it has not really changed at all since the Industrial Revolution. Math and science are still priorities in public education systems all around the world, because at that time, these were the useful areas which would get students a job upon graduation. As my dear friend Bob said, the times they are a changin', and our education system should go hand in hand with it. Something needs to be changed, as schools mostly cater only to the needs of certain children, whereas students that prefer arts and drama find it difficult to cope with this system. Due to the demographic explosion, the human population grows exponentially and in a few years, everyone will own a degree in something. And when that will happen, creativity will probably step up and make people valuable.

We all have our goals and dreams and we all want to achieve them. But what we do not have, is the will and the courage to do everything, and I mean everything, to make them come true. The story goes that Thomas Edison failed more than 10,000 times when trying to create the light bulb, although he said that he just succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways would not work. The important thing is, that he found the one way that worked. And he did it by failing those 10,000 times. We should all keep this in mind, and not be afraid of being wrong. Stay hungry, stay foolish. Like back in the day when we were children.