Do schools today kill creativity? (Ken Robinson, TEDTalks)

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Comment by dawn hilton on September 7, 2008 at 2:04pm

Ha-ha Christina, I have just spent an hour writing my profile on one of Kens links.

This is what I placed up.....................

I went to school at the age of 5 and what I can remember of the very early years from 4/7 were great.
Then one day at the age of eight, I was placed in a prefab hut with the special needs kids, we were all tormented at every lunch time, like we had leprosy.
I asked the new teacher why I was in there, she replied' because your slow' I asked what she meant, she said that because I couldn't spell the word 'ROBIN' I was slow.

I hated her and school from that day and never went back.


From that day , I would go and hide in old peoples flats squashing flies all day on windows.

Because we lived on a farm, I would go across the fields and keep on walking and not go to school.

Luckily it was the early 70's by now and everyone were Emigrating to Australia, that meant so did we.

It was great, mum got me in to a school, but I never went, I went and stole horses and rode them in the sea.

I never went to the schools, the odd day, but nothing to make an impact on me., I rebelled, I hated school and all that it stood for.

We later went to New Zealand, there we lived out the back of an old Van, just working our air fair back to the UK.

There I learnt the hard way how to survive, how to outwit life, but how to enjoy it too.

My father showed me how to free wheel down a Snowy mountain with your cam belt snapped and piston rings blown, that was nerve wreaking and I have never been scared of anything or anyone since that day.

What I learnt in those 6 years were how to survive and survive by your senses and wit, no school education system can teach you that.

Four years later and after sleeping rough in old tents, yet living the life I would die for now, we retuned home.

I got married, had a few kids and then my husband ran off with his assistant.

Art found me when I was 29 and fighting a divorce battle, I am now 47 and art is still with me.

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I'm passionate about

I would like to class myself now as a natural philosopher, after having to live by my nerve and senses.
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An idea worth spreading

My idea on my theories of life are.

Learn to tune in to your transmitter (thought) at the top of your head.

Then learn how to tune in and use your receptors ( Receiver) (your third eye).

Once you have mastered how to tune yourself in to them, concentrate how to channel in to your subconscious minds eye and feel the over whelming peace that you find there.

I think mediums can tune themselves in, it's just that they don't know how to piece it all together.
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Talk to me about

Talk to me about what ever, I might not know or understand what your going on about, but I'll try.
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People don't know that I'm good at

People generally find me a friendly person to get to know, I am good at most things I don't have to figure out mathematically.
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My TED story

I have kinda told you my story now, but I have not told you how I lost my soulmate 18 months ago in a awful accident.

It was very painful and it still is.

I have not had a dream since losing Andrew in 18 months, my creative thoughts are not as strong and powerful as they once was.

My brain is protecting my thought, (transmitter) and Receptor (Receiver) which is protecting my dreams and memories.

I cannot visualize Andrew at all or even Visualize his horrific injuries, I truly trust and know my brain is protecting me.

In 18 months of losing Andrew, I have painted over 200 oil paintings, opened my art Gallery and created three web sites, networked myself and made sure my two baby sons are healthy and happy.

I have not taken any medication, had any councilling or seeked mediacl help.

I have turned and tuned in to my creative soul/spirit to help guide and heal the pain.

This year I have been invited by the Florence Selection Panel to show at the 2009 Biennale


You can find the TED link here.xx

http://www.ted.com/index.php/profiles/view/id/134167



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Comment by Cristina Costa on September 7, 2008 at 1:19pm

Dawn! Awesome. Just brilliant. Loved the art work! I would also love to hear more from your experience. It seems like you have been able to escape the creativity killer - formal school - something I didn't manage to.
Looking forward to more! ;-)

Comment by dawn hilton on September 7, 2008 at 11:58am

Comment by dawn hilton on September 7, 2008 at 11:58am

One last thing, I KNOW we all have a transmitter ( Thought) which is where thought was born, I KNOW we also have a receptor( Receiver).

It is only when 'WE' know how to tune in to them both that 'WE' are 100% at peace with who we are and how 'WE' fully understand ourselves.

I think that 'OUR' spiritual soul guides each and everyone of us.

Time is thought, thought is time, there is no end to time, like there will be no end to thought.

Dawn Hilton.

Thesexyartist.co.uk

Comment by dawn hilton on September 7, 2008 at 11:00am

Brilliant, it's about time someone educated said something that meant something.

I totally 100% understood where Ken is coming from.

After never attending a school from the age of eight, I'm glad.

I have had to rely on all my senses through my life, I truly feel that if I had been educated through main stream school I would have never found my creative gift the way that I naturally found it, it would have been taken from me and I'd be sat at some office desk typing away.

I prefer to call myself a Natural Philosopher- Artist.

My artwork is about everything and each work are very different.