This video wasn't so much about design as creativity, and how we need to do a better job of encouraging and embracing it as a society. Sir Ken Robinson argues that we are educating children for a world that can only be imagined. We do not know what the future holds in the next five years, let alone the next sixty-five, so creativity should be as important as literacy; this is an idea that was also explored on the first day of MAE451.
Children are far more creative than adults; kids will take a chance, they are not yet afraid of being wrong or making a mistake. "If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original." In the current education system, however, in this country and throughout the developed world, children are discouraged from making mistakes. Public school were created to meet the needs of industrialization, but they continue to churn out workers for jobs that don't exist anymore. We no longer need students trained to be cogs in the machine; what we need now is to stop wasting children's talents and creative abilities because they will "never do that for a living."
I like this video's assertion that without mistakes, there is no originality because this is an issue that I often struggle with. I evaluate my ideas too quickly and too harshly because I am afraid to make a mistake, but this is a crippling habit that I have been working to overcome.
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