Schools Kill Creativity

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I am so pleased to find a speaker who hits all the right buttons about the way we educate our children. Education is based on outdated concepts about what we think every child should know.

And that is just plain dumb and so wrong of us elders to assume each child requires to be taught what was setout 80 years ago or more in school curriculums that were run under completely different and myopic regimes. The education authorities did not know about a lot of stuff we now take for granted. That type of world was not the enlightened one we are in now, or should be in.

In this speech at TED 2006, Sir Ken Robinson outlined his perception of what the education system could do and challenges the education systems to stop smothering creative thinking. Not everyone of us wanted to study Maths did we? Why were we forced to? Does an artist or writer of novels and an actor need Maths? Nope.

Watch the video. It’s a good talk with funny bits in it too.

Schools Kill Creativity