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This thing was constructed on April 22, 2007, and it was categorized as Commentary, TED, education, news.
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Stand up comedian Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson gives a remarkable and entertaining talk at TED asking “Do schools kill creativity?” He points out that the values of our educational system are tied to outdated ideas of service reaching back to the industrial revolution.
The current system is leading to “academic inflation” that fails to recognize other concepts of intelligence and creativity. Robinson demands that we radically rethink our views of intelligence.
He concludes by asking that we “…Reconsitute our conception of the richness of human capacity. Our education system has mined our minds in the ways in which we’ve strip mined the earth for a particular commodity and for the future it won’t service.”
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining (and profoundly moving) case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity, rather than undermining it. With ample anecdotes and witty asides, Robinson points out the many ways our schools fail to recognize — much less cultivate — the talents of many brilliant people. “We are educating people out of their creativity,” Robinson says. The universality of his message is evidenced by its rampant popularity online. A typical review: “If you have not yet seen Sir Ken Robinson’s TED talk, please stop whatever you’re doing and watch it now.”
