Problems with Modern Education

The first problem Ken Robinson articulates is that many children are overprescribed medications for ADHD and therefore, overmedicated. He says that, in a world where we are bound to be distracted by the several sources of stimuli around us, children are penalized in school for not paying the utmost attention in class. The second problem he discusses of is how the current school system is killing students’ creativity. According to him, this is due to the fact that the school system is modeled on the interests of industrialism, in which the arts does not fit in, as it rather goes in the…