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Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?

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Uploaded on Jan 6, 2007

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 podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10

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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.

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  • 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

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  • MelkorHimself

    Comedy Central presents: Sir Ken Robinson.

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  • s1258516

    your citing skills are immaculate

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  • Bruce Eisen

    Of course there are other thought which I can include on to this.

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  • Bruce Eisen

    Science, the internet and Theology don't kill creativity, rather they can be resources of abundant creativity. I think what he is trying to get at is the human creativity as a whole, utilizing the whole being of the human instead of just utilizing one side of the human's brain. Also to change the fundamental principles of school which came from the enlightenment era into fundamental principles that is capable of teaching the humans to function as a whole being rather than one side of the brain.

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  • rainbowthinker

    Face it, your dad is an asshole.

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  • safera alsafera

    My teacher in the past did not be attention to my talent in writing for this reasons I did not improve this skill and I paid the price , I dont think I will teach my children in stupid school .

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  • Kimberly Moraes Walker

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

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  • reecejames3

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

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  • thenewerlogin

    That's a massive generalisation.

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