The TED website is fantastic for 'ideas worth spreading', with a wide range of talks for you to listen to. This talk is by Sir Ken Robinson and it is all about how schools hinder children's creativity rather than nurture it. I find it interesting how he speaks about adults stigmatising mistakes, it is incredibly true! When I was younger I wasn't bothered about whether I was 'wrong' or not I just did what I felt was right, whatever I wanted to do. As I went through secondary school I noticed myself creeping into a shell and when questions were asked, I would sit quietly and leave it to those who were more confident with the subject, this way I could avoid the humiliation of being wrong.
It didn't take me too long to grow out of this, and I can now embrace my mistakes because quite often I do not see them as 'mistakes' as such, but just an alternative approach/idea that may work better at another time. But this could just be because of my creativity and the environment in which I am in, I am surrounded by illustrators who are prone to making mistakes, and all whose styles are completely different from one another.
I do however find it incredibly annoying how it is still the same subjects that are classed as the 'more important', and Sr Robinson also talks about this. He mentions how all over the world the same hierarchy of subjects exists, with maths english and science at the top. I myself was very good at academic subjects at school, scoring top grades in all 3 of those subjects but when I responded to other pupils question as to what i was going to study at a higher level, they were shocked that I was choosing to study art.
Yet now when they see something I have produced, they either state that it 'looks amazing' and 'I could never do that', or sometimes I hear 'I don't really understand it'...............
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