Opinion: How Do We Get Adults To Be As Creative As Five-Year old Children?, By Adetola Salau
A lot of people have viewed Sir Ken Robinson’s 2007 Famous TED Talk “Do schools kill creativity”. It resonated highly with a lot of people because a lot of people are wondering about the negative effects that formal education has children remaining creative.
During their research, Land and Jarman tested a diverse group of people, and included a population sample of younger people. They added 1,600 children between three-five years old to their sample group. They later re-tested the same children at 10 years, and again at 15 years of age.2 per cent Now look at those numbers: 98 per cent of kindergartens were deemed creative geniuses. This is an amazingly astronomical number, they continued with testing the same group of children as they grew up. By close to the end of Primary school, only 30 per cent of the children were considered creative geniuses. By high school there were only 12 per cent left. This is an ominous sign because when the same test was carried out on a group of adults, the results were spiraling down.
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