http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity
http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity/transcript
When Mr. Robinson, through the process of deductive reasoning, stated, "...as children grow up, we start to educate them progressively from the waist up. And then we focus on their heads. And slightly to one side" I felt that wholeheartedly, from my own personal experience and from my daughter's. When he talked about how schools don't spend as much time on teaching kids dance as mathematics, I thought, "Well, they give us the option to in high school. It's up to the students to choose to take the class." But really, if I spent a little more time on it, I know I don't really believe that makes it okay.
High School definitely gives more leeway to do what you really want, but if you are struggling with the classes teaching us to be college professors the first thing they point to is the passion you are good at, and threaten to take it away or just question why you can't be good at Academics like you are good at that.
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