As you know by now, our school is a bit different from other schools. Here, teachers encourage the creativity and critical thinking. Our school is implementing the International Baccalaureate but some progressive practices here are carried beyond the IB principles.
I suggest you to listen to a debate about ” Creativity in Education” ( the video is mostly for teachers and parents but I would like to talk about it with our students as well)
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I am writing only some ideas that came out in order to ignite your interest:
- Creative thinking comes in Problem formulation and our schools have the problems already formulated for students
- Creative thinking means ” playing with the rules” and not “playing by the rules”
- Our Education is depersonalized and based on standardization
- We should teach awareness in schools if we want a more harmonious world
The guests ( for the first half of the video) are:
Dr. Daniel Siegel – clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine
Sir Ken Robinson – English author, speaker and international advisor on education
Murray Gell-Mann – received the Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles.( he discovered the quarks among others)
Matt Goldman, Co-Founder, Blue School ( another kind of school) & Blue Man Group
Eckhart Tolle – listed by the Watkins Review as the most spiritually influential person in the world
Dalai Lama – the head monk of the “Yellow Hat” school of Tibetan Buddhism – received Nobel Peace Prize