The TED talks we viewed in class presented interesting ideas in an original medium. The use of TED gives the speaker both credibility as well as an opportunity to present ideas to an open minded community that is less rigid and more open to new ideas than the conventional medium of publishing. The idea that creativity is being hindered by the confines of the classroom is a well thought out hypothesis. Creativity is most definitely discouraged inside the academic institutions. We are taught to replicate the work of our instructors in a manner that they see fit. Often in a class you do not do the work the right way you aim to do it the teachers way. As an English major I find that I learn a new style of writing with each class in order to appease the teacher’s ideals of proper English composition. Writing should be less about form and more about conveying content in one's own point of view, style, and voice.
