Huy Tran

CSBS 330

Dr. Dale Lindekugel

Lab 1

I.

I would like to research a topic on public education system and it’s responsibility on the deprivation of students’ creativity

II.

A couple months ago, I watched a video in which Sir Ken Robinson -a British international advisor on education speaks at TED conference. He made the case that schools, on one hand, claim to better our future, turn out on the other hand to be the force that vanish our creativity, to make talented, brilliant people think otherwise. I’m fascinated by his speech and can’t help but agree with him on that. He speaks for many of us students that the education system in the US and the world is similar in the way that it doesn’t allow students to be who they want to be. Schools set in students’ minds the standard and benchmark of what the workforce want from them instead of leading them onto the path of their true passions or things that feed their spirit.

He gave an example of world-renowned choreographer Gillian Lynne, who’s also known for her work in “ Cats” and “ Phantom of opera”. When she was little, she couldn’t pay attention to study at school, and was thought to have learning disorder. But little did that school know she was born to dance. So, after transferring to a dance school, she took off and became successful millionaire. Our education system doesn’t give art, drama, music or anything creativity driven classes the same status as it does with Math, science…

He also said that the purpose of public education around the world is produce university professors. I think it’s true if we look at what school teaches us and what really happens outside in the workplace. They’re totally on different ends of the spectrum. I heard so many times, almost every fellow student I talk to here at Eastern, they don’t know what