Ken begins his talk saying "Everybody has a interesting education". He explains how education can go deep and be a personal, and in most cases is very unpredictable. He also lays out the idea that our strictly left-brain thinking education system is suppressing creativity in children.
Ken started off by talking about how all children have creativity, and they arent afraid to be wrong. He demonstrated that children are our hope for the future, and they are born creative. He proved the point through, that society is"educating the creativity out of children". He said that students were rewarded for academic talents, but not for talents that are more creative, such as music, arts and dancing. Society is an "academic inflation". where a college degree is worth less than it was before. Now it's not just about having the academic ability, but schools should also reward creative thinking, more right- brained thinking. Intelligence isn't just being good at math and science; it's being being able to use the dynamic ability of the entire mind, being creative and not just logical. He says that, "Every education system on earth has the same heirarchy of subject: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and at the bottom aer the arts. "all of these should be valued equally, since all are equally important. Creativity is as important as literacy, but that creativity is not rewarded in society. The talk was ended by Robinson's desire to incorporate creativity into today's education, since it's just as important. The entire talk was done in a familiar fashion, so that Ken Robinson really connected to the audience. He used hand motion occasionally, to show how he felt as he talked, but didn't use them to excessively, making sure people understood what he was saying. He told many stories, expressing that people who seem restless are given medicine instead of having their talents nourished. Ken's ted talk, "How Schools Kill Creativity" pointed out the changes that should be made to help our changing world and society, and I felt it was very interesting.
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All of us want to stand up, step in, and speak out for what's right. All of us want to be the hero. All of us want to make THE difference. At one point or another, these thoughts have gone through every persons head. The question however, is will we? If there is no one to take a stand with us, then who will we follow? Boniface Mwangi explains and shares his thoughts and stories of how he did just that- taking a stand, alone!
He tells us that he is a photographer who was hired to photograph moments of torture and suffering in Kenya, but also a civil rights activist. However he claims that it was not indeed how he always acted. He tells stories of how when he was a child, he was very passive aggressive and was nicknamed by his friends "sof-ti". He then goes on saying how the elders and leaders in his country said that it was better to be a smart coward than a dead hero. This scared him into submission, making him always follow orders and never question authority. Later in life, he took amazing, yet devastating photos of the pain and suffering of the people being enslaved there. This made him enraged, causing him to go against everything he has ever known, and stood up for what he believed was right. He says he stood up and caused an uproar, making the crowd go crazy. The police soon noticed and quickly assaulted him, leaving him stranded in a corner suffering from his beatings. I overall enjoyed this TED talk, even if it was quite short. it gave a nice incite on how crooked the Kenyan government can be and the impact one man can have on one group. I would defiantly recommend this video to anyone out there. There was one down side to it, and that was that it was nothing like I expected, and even then it was phenomenally good!
"Most of the ideas I have had, were fueled by anger" claims Kailash Satyarthi in his TED talk "How To Make Peace? Get Angry". He believes that some of the ideas that you can have can be created in the mind sense of anger. He tells us about the crooked cast system and how he decided to outcast that cast system.
He starts by explaining his background, how he was a child living in the vast country of India and how he idolized Mahatma Gandhi. He says that he loves how Gandhi reached out to every cast system and wanted to solve everything peacefully. Kailash, then goes to tell stories about when he was just a young boy in India and how his leaders were very on the side of his hero. He explains how he and his friends organized and planed a feast to invite his leaders to, hoping they would hear him out to make a change. Then, he makes us feel almost as extravagant as he was when he heard that all of the leaders agreed to come to his feast. He then goes on saying that they waited for many hours, till finally they decided to go and see why they weren't the yet. With every house he goes to, they all have their own very unimpressive excuses. He then becomes outraged and begins insulting the men until he is threatened with having his whole family out-casted, but instead they decided to just punish just him. They told him that he would have to go and clean all of the priests feet and drink the water. He says that he was very angry that day and refused, casting out the cast system so he would not be a part of it. He claims that it was the anger inside of him that fueled his courage to say no and stand up for what was right. I, actually again, thoroughly enjoyed this video. It has actually taught me that maybe sometimes getting angry can help you on your path to peace. I originally would have thought that it would occur the other way around. In the end I was was very interested in this topic, even though it turned to be nothing how I imagined. I would recommend this video to anyone who would be interested in how to efficiently make peace. Most recently, I have watched my first TED video. I have finally successfully analyzed the talk. It's called The Hidden Reasons For Poverty The World Needs To Address Now, by Gary Haugen. He makes a powerful claim about poverty's affect on the world and his thoughts about it. He produces many hefty sets of factual and easily relatable stories of how with poverty, follows violence.
Haugen, begins his talk off by revealing that hes not much of a crier and that he works as a civil rights lawyer. At first glance it seems as a personal look at his personality, but soon turns to a shocking story of his many experiences over his career. He says that originally he began working with police abuse cases in the U.S, till in 1994 he was moved to Rolonda to be the director of the U.N.'s genocide investigation. He claims that everything he saw was horrific, but that the genocide all was merely a simple lack of "compassion". He says then that in Rolonda, even he himself was brought to tears. Later, on a brighter note, he says that he was also part of one of the biggest successes of compassion, the Fight Against Global Poverty. This organization, obviously, is made to help push back against poverty, which is as he claims, the root of most violence. He then talks more and more about how poverty is the root of most violence in the world. Throughout the rest of the talk he makes many things that can occur in a poverty struck world, that can range from disrespect to extreme acts of violence. After watching the talk by Haugen, I have greatly enjoyed it. It was a unique look into the world of poverty and the people that live with it. Mr. Haugen not only had thorough data to support his claims, but also had many heart wrenching stories of his times in the field. Both factors kept my eyes glued to the screen as I learn more and more about how people, being minorly less fortunate than us, have a completely separate lifestyle than us. Also, Haugen's delivery towards the concept was fantastic, as he made you feel like you were standing in the poor's shoes. Along with that, he finely stated and supported his claim, that with poverty follows pain and misery, with a lack of compassion that is. To finish this off, after watching the TED talk, "The Hidden Reasons For Poverty The World Needs To Address Now" spoken by Mr. Haugen, I've decided to adapt to his ideas of aiding people not as fortunate, along with being compassionate towards others. I would strongly suggest this video towards anyone with interests in helping others. My only regret is not choosing a talk with a shorter title. The world has many problems right now. We have a lack in leadership, a weakening representation in democracy, and the never ending rise in the worlds pollution. We are so caught up with all of these 'smaller' problems, that we are ignoring the real problem. Poverty has been destroying the lives of people everywhere. They can't afford many of their basic needs such as food, water, heat, and shelter. This is a sad yet simple fact that is chosen to be ignored. This is an example of a simple lack of compassion. This lack has become overwhelming, putting some of the people struck by poverty in extreme danger just because of the neighborhood they live in.
There are people who will get pulled off the street in broad day light, and be brutally beat, tortured, and raped by people who live in the same neighborhood. The problem of all this, is not that there are no laws to stop them, but instead that there's nobody to enforce the laws. For instance there's a woman in Organ, who's house was being broken in to by a man while she just watched from inside. She did what any other reasonable human would do, and called the police. When she called the police, the operator said that due to budget cuts she couldn't send anyone out to her house till the morning. Shortly after the man broke in and violently beat, chocked, and raped her. Its unbelievable to think that something as terrifying as that could happen just due to budget cuts. This world is struggling, just to keep its humanity in times like this. We are living in a world full of poverty, and its devastating us. Its gotten so bad that a graph will show that nearly fifty percent of the population has an income of less than two dollars a day. If we want to make a change we should act now, act against, act to reveal. the Hidden Reasons. Welcome Weebly, to my new blog page! I'm Liam Carrasco from Winter Garden, Florida and I am a student at West Orange High School. We have started a blog page for a project in my English 1 class. Our project will be making reflections of 5 separate TED videos that we watch. I personally think it is a poor decision, but that's mostly because I'm not exactly tech savvy, but then again it isn't always a bad idea to get your name out online early. I hope this gives a good idea of what this blog page will be about.
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