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.

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[redade19]

I am just finishing uni, and just had my dissertation result back. I am truly disappointed as I just scraped a pass. All my family and friends are so happy for me, yet my Dad I know is very disappointed, as I am not a "grade A" student and has hinted I am thick. He says that anyone who doesn't go to uni is nothing. All these years I worked hard and struggled through because of him. Grades don't make a person though! I realise that now.

[OfficialProJustice]

It's crazy that we didnt see this sooner right? Well its better to have opened our eyes now then never hearing about this at all

[Kimberly Moraes Walker]

We unteach creativity in schools. That's a generalization, but sometimes generalizations are accurate.

[reecejames3]

we teach children solutions somebody else created to solve problems rather then teaching to create our own solutions to solve problems..

[thenewerlogin]

That's a massive generalisation.

[thenewerlogin]

He is disappointed in you because he thinks you're thick, and even points it out indirectly? My perspective: Your dad sounds like a class-obsessed cock.

[sundaycoffeemaker]

"I do not tolerate failure."

"Which is why you would make a lousy scientist."

Shredder and Baxter Stockman, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, 2003.

Even the writers of children's cartoons get this concept.

[Pythagoras211]

Those are the three dragons of the apocalypse

[Pythagoras211]

Science, religion and the internet kill creativity

[Mitch Nygaard]

I wish that rather than holding you back and punishing you for bad grades, they helped you raise them with learning. I wish there were no grades, so parents wouldn't ground us, because we don't learn like others. I just wish that there was more learning than judging.

[MultiPr0f]

wow

“If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.”

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