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One of the myths of creativity is that very few people are really creative,” said former education professor, author, and TED speaker Ken Robinson, in a statement released to coincide with the report. “The truth is that everyone has great capacities, but not everyone develops them. One of the problems is that too often our educational systems don’t enable students to develop their natural creative powers. Instead, they promote uniformity and standardization. The result is that we’re draining people of their creative possibilities and, as this study reveals, producing a workforce that’s conditioned to prioritize conformity over creativity.
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Education System Stifles Creativity, Survey Finds

As much as I love and respect the work of Ken Robinson, I’m hitting a breaking point. If America is tired of it’s underfunded education system failing, then they need to recognize the following:

You either value education, or you don’t.

It’s that simple.

You either care enough to demand that state and federal governments stop slashing your funding for education (paid for by your tax dollars) instead of giving themselves pay raises and fighting for tax loopholes and breaks for millionaires and billionaires, or you don’t.

You either care enough to demand that we pay teachers a decent wage (since those vile liberal Communist Socialists also spend all day with your children, mentoring, tutoring, sometimes parenting, but generally taking care of them above and beyond what you will ever comprehend), or you don’t.

You either believe that repeated high-stakes standardized testing forces your children to learn how to take a test rather than think critically (because if their multiple test scores are too low the district will lose funding and the teacher may lose their job), or you don’t.

It’s simple. It really, really is.

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Posted at 11:53 AM 04 May 2012
Another quote that needs to be up in my future classroom.

Another quote that needs to be up in my future classroom.

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Posted at 2:13 PM 21 April 2012
Creativity is the act of making obvious things that aren’t yet obvious.
— LukeW | UX London: Long Nose of Innovation (via slantback)

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Posted at 9:17 AM 19 April 2012
wincherella: Please don’t sit in class and expect me to spoon feed you your education. 

wincherella:

Please don’t sit in class and expect me to spoon feed you your education. 

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Posted at 9:18 PM 15 April 2012
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
— John Keats, describing one of the most overlooked necessities of creativity: Grit. (via world-shaker)
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Posted at 7:37 PM 09 April 2012

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Posted at 3:25 PM 04 April 2012
The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
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Vince Lombardi (via mnmal)

Relevant.

And, I think, soon to be posted over my desk(s).

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Posted at 3:37 PM 29 February 2012
Tell me, I forget; show me, I remember; involve me, I understand.
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Carl Orff

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Posted at 9:21 PM 28 February 2012
adventuresinlearning: shannsational: Thank you, Kurt. What he said!

adventuresinlearning:

shannsational:

Thank you, Kurt.

What he said!

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Posted at 8:53 AM 14 February 2012

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Posted at 10:54 PM 06 February 2012