If you are not prepared to be wrong then you’ll never come up with anything original.
Why don’t we get the best out of people? Sir Ken Robinson argues that it’s because we’ve been educated to become good workers, rather than creative thinkers. People are frightened of being wrong, people are being educated out of their creative capacities. Students with restless minds and bodies — far from being cultivated for their energy and curiosity — are ignored or even stigmatized, with terrible consequences. “We are educating people out of their creativity.” Robinson says
In this TED video creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we’re educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence.
Ken style of delivery is fantastic, has the whole theatre in laughs to the point where you’d be caught thinking he was a standup comedian however his message runs deep. Sir Ken believes that we need to rethink our understanding of intelligence as it won’t stand for the future, that Creativity is now just as important as literacy and it should be treated with the same status.
Sir Ken’s lecture is perfect for lunch break viewing, kick back with a sandwich and find out about why creativity, the process of having original ideas that have value, which come about through the interaction of disciplinary ways of seeing things is so important now and for the future.
enjoy.
