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Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?

http://www.ted.com Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity. TEDTalks is a daily video ...  
 
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SpicyHam (14 hours ago) Show Hide
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nothing has changed in 50 years.
afeld4171 (15 hours ago) Show Hide
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This is so profound. And obnoxiously true...
idesignandcreate (23 hours ago) Show Hide
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Schools are just like how he said in the UK, we need change.
SpicyHam (1 day ago) Show Hide
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@numbahone yup!
SpicyHam (1 day ago) Show Hide
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Let;s hear opinion of the people that are in the public education system today.

let;s hear their voices, shall we?
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I work in education and I agree with some of this but certainly not all of it. I think creativity is overblown as a concept and it's one of those words that can just get people nodding in agreement without really thinking about it.
RomanusDigitus (1 day ago) Show Hide
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lol, nice one
kmarinas86 (2 days ago) Show Hide
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The creativity of a video is proportional to the standard deviation of the thumb rankings of its comments.
isaacworton (2 days ago) Show Hide
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that was good stuff
tayloreh (2 days ago) Show Hide
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Firstly, I've been forming opinion very much like his myself this last year, so its so nice to hear someone say it to a big phat audience.

Secondly, I think beyond the education system, advertising is another massive detriment to human intelligence and creativity and I hope this petty jizz-fest test tube marketing miasma its made the internet into dies out steadily.

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