Wednesday, June 2, 2010

It was good conference and very interesting, but I must admit I had to see it twice and the second time with subtitles because I didn’t understand completely what Sir Ken Robinson said.

Referring to what he talk about, I share his posture about the education that we are receiving because we each have different tastes and abilities, which are not always related with university education. A clear example of this and a reason for which art should be taken more seriously is what happened at least in my career. The year I started my university studies, some classmates (good friends of mine) were on the waiting list and others with the best scores in my career, but the PSU only measures “the most important subjects” like Sir Ken Robinson says, such as math, Spanish and later science and history. For this reason this test does not measure accurately the successfulness of students in an art type career, thus, the students with the best scores aren’t necessarily the best students. Therefore I think that the education and the way we educate should be reevaluated in order to understand the student and how he learns not how we want him to learn because we are all different. I also think that we should adapt our entry system to universities by one which you would evaluate the abilities necessary for each career individually.

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