“… creativity is as important in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status…”
“…we don’t grow into creativity we grow out of it, we get educated out of it…”
“… as children grow up we start to educate them progressively from the waste up and then we focus on their heads, and slightly to one side…”
Shahar sent me this video about a year ago when he was giving a workshop in Europe. I was and still am inspired by it. I am amused whenever I find myself wanting to describe something as “important” – I feel importance is highly over-rated. So with a sense of amusement I invite you to view this important, charming and amusing 20 minute talk by Sire Ken Robinson – “Do Schools Kill Creativity?”:
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