What are schools for? To educate. They were created for kids and children to learn knowledge and explore, gain experiences through different methods of teaching, lecturing and studying. However, people are gradually losing the original purpose of schools, and turning them into a part of robotic machines.
The schools nowadays are focusing on the scores and grades of papers rather than the knowledge and spirits inside the students' heads, which was just the opposite effect of the prior schools. These kind of schools robbed off the creativity and inspiration from the children, taking away their talents and leaving them with memories, reading and writing techniques from the textbooks.
We are all aware that high grades mean a better job in the future, which brings in more salary, that's just how it is in the trend of societies. But by following the ways of most of the schools: sacrificing your original thoughts and spirits in exchange of good grades, is it really worth it?
That's just what Robinson is trying to propose in today's lecture: schools are killing the creativity of youth. I believe that they are still some schools existing in the world, which focus on the students' bodies and minds, on how they behave and what they have achieved, rather than marks and scores of test papers. However, more and more are pressured into transformation of the schools without creativity.
These schools have stress too: with low grades and few people who made their entrance to the good high schools, colleges, this is prone to result in less students who are willing to join the original ones. That's why most of the schools nowadays are pushing their pupils as hard as they can, striving for the good grades and letting go the creativity. It's really a sad thing for both the schools and students.
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