Sunday, February 17, 2019

Do Schools Kill Creativity?

One of the most iconic TED talks of all time by Sir Ken Robinson from 2006.  Worth watching for anyone in education.

All kids have tremendous talent and we squander them.
If you are not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original.
We are educating people out of their creative capacities.
Public education came into existence in response to industrialization.  The most useful subjects for work are at the top.
We suffer from Academic inflation.

"If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hearse him, is he still wrong?"

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