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Essay / Analyzing Ken Robinson's Views on Education Reform
Ken informs us that of the fifteen hundred children studied, ninety-eight percent had divergent thinking skills. Five years later, the same children were tested again, of the first fifteen hundred, this time only fifty percent had divergent thinking ability (Robinson). This argument helps Ken prove that instead of stimulating creativity, we somehow create a feeling of assimilation, because there is only one way to think or there is no way to think. There is only one solution to every problem. This becomes problematic, because it creates a sense of linear thinking, in a world that rarely has just one good solution, and sometimes the only solution people can come up with isn't always the best one. In making this argument, Ken attempts to reinforce his appeal to speech logos, which he does very well, because it makes sense to think that we should nurture the creativity of our young people, rather than crushing