Are Our Schools Killing Creativity?

Rhetorical question, we all know they are - here's how they are doing so

Though the video for this post was originally recorded at a TED event in 2006, the talking points are just as relevant - if not, more so - as then.

Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.

Sir Ken Robinson was a British author, speaker, and international advisor on education in the arts to government, non-profits, education, and arts bodies. He was the director of the Arts in Schools Project (1985–1989), Professor of Arts Education at the University of Warwick (1989–2001), and professor emeritus after leaving the university.

Robinson was a global authority on creativity, education, and human potential, celebrated for his transformative TED Talk, "Do Schools Kill Creativity". He challenged the way we educate our children, championing a radical rethink of how our school systems cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence.

Robinson's teachings in part by personalizing curriculums to meet individual students' needs opened our eyes to an educational system that isn't fair to a lot of kids and holds back their potential.

We’ll let him speak for himself…