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Sir Ken Robison is an internationally recognized (and charismatic) leader in the development of human recourses. His talk "Do Schools Kill Creativity?” says that the great majority of present educative systems don’t support the artistic will and creativity of students. He explains that those aspects are sacrificed to give importance to a deeper formation in matters than presumably are going to benefit students to find a “normal" job. This sacrifice, according to Robinson, kills the creativity of the majority of students of educative system. Just a few, those who have a tenacious aptitude for arts, end up developing their talents until turning them into their work.

I agree with Robinson’s opinion and I think that the theory of multiple intelligences (that intelligence, particularly as it is traditionally defined, doesn’t sufficiently include the variety of abilities humans display) would have to be considered by the educative systems. In my opinion, these systems would have to give more importance to creativity and to the other nonacademic talents (as the artistic ones). I also think that the Chilean Ministry of Education would have to give more importance to sports.

Do Schools Kill Creativity?

I think that schools limit the creativity, influencing of different way to the different students. It is normal that schools, as all institutions, establishes limits and follows programs and methods. So I am in agreement with the idea that the creativity must be limited to maintain an order, to avoid a disciplinary chaos and to prepare children to a so competitive world. In general professors accept or even like students’ creativity, whereas they follow certain parameters and norms.

On the other hand, I think that schools don’t kill creativity because it cannot be destroyed. In my opinion (as some materialist anthropologists say), there are some biopsychological determinants of culture that allow the human adaptation. I think creativity is an important part of the human adaptation to its surroundings, and because of that it cannot be “killed”.

Ideal future

Hi! I’ m going to talk about my ideal future. In 2014 I would like to be following a postgraduate study in social Anthropology or in another Social Science. I would love to do that in a country like Belgium, France or Spain. As I have Spanish nationality I believe that it will be possible because that allows me to enter with greater facility to the European Union. I think that I would like to study at the historic University of Paris (this university is often referred to as the Sorbonne or La Sorbonne), due to its quality and to its great international prestige.

On the other hand I would like to be playing in a football team of the university (like I actually do). I would like to play as much soccer as I can before aging.

Another goal that I would like to reach is to be married with Francisca Herrera. I think that we would make a perfect couple and that we would live happy forever.