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Sir Ken Robinson at TED. One of the best talks — funny, powerful, informative — I have ever seen:
Kids will take a chance. If they don’t know, they’ll have a go. Am I right? They’re not frightened of being wrong. Now, I’m not saying being wrong is the same thing as being creative. But, what we do know is that if you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original. […] By the time they are adults, they have lost that capacity. They are frightened of being wrong. […] We are educating people out of their creative capacities.
Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects. Every one of them, doesn’t matter where you go, you think it’d be otherwise, but it isn’t. At the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and at the bottom are the arts. Everywhere on Earth. […] Truthfully what happens is that as children grow older, we progressively start to educate them from the waist up. And then we focus on their heads. And slightly to one side.
If you think about it, the whole system of public education around the world is a protracted process of university education. And the consequence is that many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they’re not — because the thing that they were good at at school wasn’t valued or was actually stigmatized. And I think we can’t afford to go on that way. In the next thirty years, according to UNESCO, more people worldwide will be graduating through education than the beginning of history.
I can’t possibly compete with Sir Ken Robinson or his British accent. Just go watch his talk. It’s one of the top 5 talks you’ll ever see. And, again, if you aren’t hooked by the 3:30-minute mark, I’ll eat my pants.
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