About this title: quot;This really is a remarkable book. It does for human resources what Rachel Carson #146;s Silent Spring did for the environment. It makes you wonder why we insist on sustaining an education system that is narrow, partial, entirely inappropriate for the 21st century and deeply destructiv
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Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Date Published: 2001
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Date Published: 2001-06-15
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Date Published: 2001
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Date Published: 2001
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"The argument in "Out of Our Minds: Learning to be creative" is by now a familiar one. There are multiple intelligences, schools tend to favor the rather narrow fact- and logic-based kinds, that damages our creativity and especially our children who have other kinds of intelligence (kinesthetic, spatial, artistic, emotional) and grow up thinking they're no good or at least not very smart. Astonishing numbers of these kids, according to Robinson, go on to become successes in interesting walks of life. The book came out in 2001, and represented Robinson's long, hard-slogging battle to make the English educational system more flexible and creative. As such, many of the references are to the UK and its schools, and Americans may find those references occasionally a little puzzling. But overall, this is a strong book full of compelling arguments for taking a more holistic view of education and (at least) putting study of the arts back into public education. The only weak point of the book is at the end, when Robinson gives a few recommendations for making bureaucracies, whether in schools or businesses, more creative. The recs strike me as unduly tentative and they fail to show how we can transform bureaucracies everywhere. But as a call to action, Out of Our Minds is wonderful."
"I picked up this book after listening to one of Ken Robison's TED talks on creativity and education. Ken covers a lot of territory, but it's a very readable introduction to some of the issues in education today and the necessity to stimulate creativity on personal and corporate levels.
I think more time could have been spent on solving the education problem. He suggests that education must be rebalanced so that there's balance across the curriculum, balance within the teaching of disciplines, and balance btw. education and the wider world. He then only spends 8 pages delineating what he means. Some case studies would have been useful here.
This book is ideally suited to those in management who can make changes at the higher levels and change the corporate culture (whether that be at schools, companies, teams).
Here are a few thoughts:
-For personal creativity: Remember to first be an artist (e.g. brainstorming) and then a judge. See also _Six Thinking Hats_, CORT, and Synectics.
-Domain-specific creativity can be encouraged through putting people in new and challenging positions to extend their skills and learn new ones. Also, one can build smaller units that focus on projects, bringing together folks with different domain-specific skills.
-Creativity is not purely personal, but depends very much upon the issues of an age, technologies of that age, the surrounding culture, etc.
-Creativity is often incremental, not linear or smooth, and often involves making connections between specialists and specialties in very different areas.
-Science is concerned with explanation, and art with description. They're both wonderfully complementary."
"In my opinion, this book is overrated. What it says is true and necessary for education and business, but the writing style is pedestrian at best, and not at all creative, though it is a book about creativity. I had trouble staying awake through most of it. However, what it says is definitely important, and it may have been written more with businessmen in mind, and if that's the case, it's probably more effective for them."
"I think this will prove to be a seminal book in educational philosophy; a book that is held in high esteem as people look back on this book in coming decades. Whether it's seen as the wake up call we needed and heeded or the warning we ignored remains to be seen.
Once Robinson lays out his basic premise, he then uses the remainder of the book to flesh out the foundation of his thesis and explore its implications - which he does thoroughly. Hi cross-disciplinary approach pulls in current research in brain function, sociological and psychological research, art, science, chemistry, physics and philosophy.
He not only argues effectively for the need to nurture our creative side. He also points out that intelligence is far more multi-facted and complicated than we ever imagine. In a world that is rapidly changing, our schools need to adapt in order to meet these changes."
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