Sir Ken Robinson Talk tie back

To me, the most interesting thing that Sir Ken said was that ADD and ADHD are just inventions that essentially snuffing creativity. Both of these disorders are recent inventions, within the last few decades, and now there are all kinds of medicines who's sole purpose is to quell the restlessness in the children with these "disorders". He gave the example of the famous choreographer. As a child she was restless all the time and wasn't doing well in traditional school. When she went to the doctor to see what they could do, he showed that there was nothing wrong with her, but instead she just wasn't supposed to be in traditional learning environment. She was supposed to be a dancer. Like we talked about briefly in class today, the public school system is moving more towards discouraging artistic expression and education becuase of the No child left behind act. This basically means that instead of encouraging creativity by means of discussion and creative projects, they teach straight from tests, so the students only learn what is absolutley necessary to pass the test. If this act wasn't existant, or the schools weren't penalizing for not doing as well as they should, there would be more art and creative classes, and the regular classroom discussions would be more creative, and there would be more actual discussion instead of just blurting out and memorizing facts to just regurgitate them when they take the test.