TED talk: Do schools kill creativity?

[fr0d0]

Regulated shmegulated

The regulators are bureaucrats fulfilling a capitalist agenda. Your education isn't their primary concern. Making money is.

If, on balance, your child would be better educated at home, then that's the option. With this particular question, the death of creativity, the balance swings towards home schooling.

[Tiberius]

You've just shown how they wouldn't be better educated at home. This is why I think the whole schooling system needs a shake-up.

[Tim614]

Forgive me, Im unable to pick out the exact thing im talking about but, Iv schooled over the internet for 3 years now and it has gotten me interested in literature and other things, The schooling over the internet is different then what people label it as. I cant remember the site name but its a charter school i think its called. http://www.ecotohio.org They hold online classes in which teachers can have 1 on 1 time if needed, Its free and they send out the pcs along with headsets ext. Im pretty sure its only available in Ohio though pretty soon it wont matter becuase the goverments trying to budget cut charter schools.

[fr0d0]

You've just shown how they wouldn't be better educated at home. This is why I think the whole schooling system needs a shake-up.

Thinking about this today Adrian. State education is like a franchised business. You know you get a minimum quality with a franchise. I'd say impossible to achieve excellence. With an independent you get the potential of excellence, as well as a potential for very poor service.

[Edwardo Piet]

So like all or nothing?
I think I would agree actually....

Although both pure excellence and poor service is also possible in schools too of course.
But generally I guess schools are perhaps more consistent and home schooling is generally more crash and burn.

Although I would say its not so much pure excellence or totally terrible for home schools....I would say its just generally more consistently in the middle for schools perhaps...sometimes higher sometimes lower...
And with home education its more generally down the lower or higher end than in the middle....generally I guess.

I guess because teachers are more or less kind of qualified and with parents you get all sorts of variety...
E.G You get really stupid parents and really intelligent parents, etc.

I don't think you tend to get THAT highly intelligent school teachers for instance...as the highly intelligent ones would probably be doing a higher better paid job perhaps.
I do not claim to know any of this really...this is 'just a theory' - if that.

Just my 2 cents.

EvF

[fr0d0]

I'm sorta 'lets be fair to all the people' socialist and want people who wouldn't get much of an education otherwise to have an equal chance as much as possible. I'm not nieve and having worked many years in education know how unfair it is and how it's mostly used to do the opposite & keep people in their places. I really wouldn't want to promote home schooling as a way to give yourself an advantage with any danger of affecting the quality of free education for all.

I see many benefits in home schooling. I have artistic roots and see the subject of this thread, the murder of creativity as a big problem. Our friends that home school have 4 kids. They mix with all ages of people, not just their own age. They express themselves individually and have their own identity. Not one force a fed de facto photocopy by some factory bred teacher.