Week 2. Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?

  In my opinion, yes, they do. As a person who is still involved, I might say I agree with his opinion somehow. While schools are just categorizing children based on their age not their abilities, how can be any expectation of creativity?  making mistakes or being wrong meant to be a huge problem while educating at school. Children have to follow an education system which never let them think in their own way. Day after day they become frightened of making any mistakes, maybe cause of punishments. So they learn to be a follower rather than a creative, experimental and original one. While not everybody thinks the same, ideas are different and so must be their field of practicing creativity.  

Week 2. Words list

Words that associate with “creativity” are:

Experience, Imagination, Effort, Originality

Experience is a need in creativity. Every sound, picture, noise can lead to creative imagination and ideas.  Without experience, how can one have new ideas?  Sitting down and watching cannot help too much. Practice, participation and gaining experience can bring a brighter sight over any matter surrounding human life. Then imagination would come in to the mind full of knowledge and would lead to different ideas and noble thoughts. But what can make an imagination become a reality? I think it is effort. A person can follow an idea and besides all failures, never give up having a creative result. What is called creative is something original indeed. But it doesn't mean that it shouldn't exist before. It can be a new kind of vision or perspective over something that no one has thought about before.

Words that don’t associate with “creativity” are:

Strangeness, Passiveness, Normal, Reduplicate, Unattractive

Creativity doesn't mean to be strange. To have creative thoughts and ideas doesn't mean that we have come up with the strangest thing ever. Passiveness also cannot associate with creativity. How something new and creative which had be developed over time can be created by passiveness?-impossible. Creativity means something that isn't normal and duplicated from others. Normality can be in anything, but creativity is something unique which is only one in its kind. 

Week1. Object of Curiosity

The first idea that comes to mind is a perfume bottle cap, it is easy to grip and twist. The perfume must be a cheap one cause the cap is made out of plastic and not much “stylish”. According to its color, the perfume can be for women, of course!

If I find this object somewhere at home, I would add some soil and a bean inside  to see how it grows as I tried to roughly show  below:

Week1. Why Titanic hit the iceberg?

In 1912, April, Titanic hit an iceberg and within 2 hours and half it sank. Titanic was a huge ship which took 3000 men to work on its construction for over 2 years. The amount spent on it was $7.5 million and was built by White Star Line Company. There are different story over the reasons why Titanic hit the iceberg. One story has been told that the iceberg couldn't be seen in that point of time. It’s been said that the moon was not out during the night and water was turned to black and so still. So no breakers around the iceberg were clear as a clue to show there was something around. As a result of continues melting of the ice, the iceberg became a crystal clear one which was reflecting the darkness of water and the sky. So differentiating the iceberg was not easy.

There are other stories such as the captain’s fault over ignoring six previous warnings over other icebergs. And …

the strongest story has been told by the granddaughter of the second officer in the Titanic who has been saved by chance. This story which has been untold for years says that the real reason was a misunderstanding of the communication system. The man at the wheel was able to understand rudder orders not tiller orders. When the iceberg was spotted by the first officer the 'hard a-starboard' order was released. But the man at the wheel confused and turned the wheel the wrong way into the course of the iceberg. After two minutes the mistake was corrected but too late already.