Monday, January 17, 2011

Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?

Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
Quotes:
"Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status"
"If you are not prepared to be wrong, you will not come-up with something original"
"We are educating people out of their creative capacities"
"Intelligence is Diverse" "We think of world in all dimension, we think visually, we think in sound, we think in movement, we think in abstract"
"Intelligence is Dynamic"
"Intelligence is Distinct"
"Education will take us to the future that we can't grasp."
"A kid who will be starting school this year will be retiring in year 2065. Nobody has a clue what the world will look like in 5 years time, and yet we are meant to educate them for it"