HOW SCHOOLS KILLED CREATIVITY, AND WHY WE DESPERATELY NEED TO BRING IT BACK. — PILGRIM SOUL

SIR KEN ROBINSON ON HOW SCHOOLS KILL CREATIVITY

A British author, speaker and international advisor on education in the arts, Sir Ken Robinson has dedicated his life to figuring out ways to unlock creativity in people and organizations. He works with governments, education systems, international agencies, global corporations and cultural organizations to find and utilize creativity for success. He argues that our education system has stifled our creativity and that creativity needs to be nurtured and treated with the same amount of importance as literacy.

He explored this argument very convincingly in a 2006 TED Talk titled, “Do schools kill creativity?” The nearly 20 minute lecture is considered one of the most popular TED Talks of all time, viewed more than 60 million times in 160 countries.

Robinson starts out his talk by saying he thinks we all have a vested interest in education, that it “goes deep with people,” but it’s also extremely unpredictable.