{"id":4663,"date":"2021-01-11T15:59:06","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T23:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/?p=4663"},"modified":"2021-01-11T17:46:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T01:46:17","slug":"thoughts-do-governments-kill-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/?p=4663","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts: Do Governments Kill Creativity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4667\" src=\"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-01-11-at-5.45.01-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"637\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-01-11-at-5.45.01-PM.png 637w, https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-01-11-at-5.45.01-PM-300x125.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 637px) 100vw, 637px\" \/>As a spin-off thought from the most famous TEDTalk &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/sir_ken_robinson_do_schools_kill_creativity?language=en\">Do Schools Kills Creativity?<\/a>&#8221; by the late Sir Ken Robinson, I wondered whether other factors could be pushing creativity backwards&#8230;in particular youth creativity.<\/p>\n<p>So how about government? Given how some governments have sacrificed education due to pandemic fears and others have solidly maintained educational standards (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/development\/desa\/dspd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/08\/sg_policy_brief_covid-19_and_education_august_2020.pdf\">UN Policy Brief: Education during COVID-19 and beyond<\/a>), how much does government actually value education? Is educating youth with creativity skills even on their roadmap? I question this regularly every time I think about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delish.com\/food\/a28118328\/lemonade-stands-illegal-in-most-us-states\/#:~:text=Unless%20you%20happen%20to%20reside,or%20Vermont%20are%20in%20luck.\">lemonade stands in California<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The immediate connection is that many schools are government institutions and follow government policies and are budgeted by government. I don&#8217;t know whether any government policy specifically encourages creativity in education, or if there is a budget line for creativity, but it appears that those students who succeed because of their creativity do so despite government and education, and not because of.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? Does your government genuinely encourage youth creativity or does it effectively squash it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a spin-off thought from the most famous TEDTalk &#8220;Do Schools Kills Creativity?&#8221; by the late Sir Ken Robinson, I wondered whether other factors could be pushing creativity backwards&#8230;in particular youth creativity. So how about government? Given how some governments have sacrificed education due to pandemic fears and others have solidly maintained educational standards (UN [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4663"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4669,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4663\/revisions\/4669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}