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TEDJanuary 6, 2007

Do schools kill creativity? | Sir Ken Robinson

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Gillian Lynne’s inability to sit still was treated as a problem before movement revealed her talent for dance.

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The same child can be supported into exceptional achievement or suppressed and medicated, depending on whether talent is recognized.

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Children starting school now will retire around 2065, yet schools prepare them for a future unknowable five years ahead.

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People do not naturally mature into greater creativity. They are often educated out of it.

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Public education rewards academic success as though university professors were the model human outcome.

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Modern public education systems largely emerged during the nineteenth century to meet industrialism's needs.

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Universities designed education systems in their own image, teaching society to equate intelligence with academic ability.

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Math matters, but so does dance. Physical movement is universal, and children dance naturally when permitted.

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Every child has significant talents, yet education wastes many instead of discovering and developing them.

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As children grow, education prioritizes intellect over the whole body, eventually narrowing attention to the head.

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When schools stigmatize certain abilities, brilliant creative people can decide they have no talent.

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Traditional education steers children away from music and art when those interests seem unlikely to lead to jobs.

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