Albert
Einstein once said “Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”. Well I
tried my best, but have to mention Sir Ken Robinson in this article. He
wants to know why don't we get the best out of people? He argues that it's
because we've been educated to become good workers, rather than creative
thinkers. Students with restless minds and bodies are ignored or even
stigmatized, with terrible consequences. "We are educating people out of their creativity," Robinson
says. It's a message with deep resonance.
It is a known fact that every education system on Earth
has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages,
then the humanities, and the bottom are the arts.” I am an artist and believe
me when I say the arts are being neglected. I believe that creativity now is as
important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same
status.
"The greatest scientists are artists as well,"
said Albert Einstein. As one of the greatest physicists of all time and a fine
amateur pianist and violinist, he ought to have known! For Albert Einstein,
insight did not come from logic or mathematics. It came, as it does for
artists, from intuition and inspiration.
Sir Ken led led a
massive inquiry into the significance of creativity in the educational system
and the British economy. His 2009 book, The Element:
How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything, is a New
York Times bestseller and has been translated into 21 languages. His latest
book, Finding Your
Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life,
was published in May 2013.
For Albert Einstein, insight did not come from logic or
mathematics. It came, as it does for artists, from intuition and inspiration.
Makes one think!
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