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Sir
Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an
education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.
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.
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. 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. It's a message with deep resonance.
Robinson's TEDTalk has
been distributed widely around the Web since its release in June 2006. The most
popular words framing blog posts on his talk? "Everyone should watch
this."
A visionary cultural
leader, Sir Ken led the British government's 1998 advisory committee on
creative and cultural education, a
massive inquiry into the significance of creativity in the educational system
and the economy, and was knighted in 2003 for his achievements.
His 2009 book, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes
Everything, is a New York
Times bestseller and has been translated into 21 languages. A 10th
anniversary edition of his classic work on creativity and innovation, Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative,
was published in 2011. His latest book, Finding
Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life,
was published by Viking in 2013.
