“Creativity now is as important in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status.”
“What we do know is, if you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original. And by the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity. They have become frightened of being wrong.”
“We are now running national education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make. And the result is that we are educating people out of their creative capacities.”
“If you think of it, the whole system of public education around the world is a protracted process of university entrance, and the consequence is that many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they’re not, because the thing they were good at in school wasn’t valued or was actually stigmatised and I think we can’t afford to go on that way.”
“You know, Mrs Lynn, Julian isn’t sick. She’s a dancer.”
Sir Ken Robinson:
http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html
