Video: Do Schools Today Kill Creativity?

Here´s a funny and interesting 20 minutes from last years TEDTalks.

Sir Ken Robinson, author of Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative, speaks about education, the school-system and how it squanders creativity among children and affects us as we become adults.

Robinson says that we have to rethink education and our definition of intelligence and human capacity so we can face the future and changes in society.

If you´re a RSS-subscriber you can watch it at this Googlevideo page.

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9 Responses to “Video: Do Schools Today Kill Creativity?”


  1. 1 Rachel Mar 12th, 2007 at 8:58 pm

    This is awesome!! Spot on!
    Thank you for sharing!(:
    I will share along . . .
    R(:

  2. 2 Henrik Edberg Mar 13th, 2007 at 12:36 am

    Thanks a lot, Rachel.

  3. 3 Dominique Larocque Mar 16th, 2007 at 6:15 am

    Wow! Wow! Wow!
    I loved it! Thank you - this has inspired me for a whole year! Just imagine, just imagine how much wonderful change we could bring to this world if we truly embraced these teachings! Thank you! I am inspired to keep howling in the wilderness.

  4. 4 Henrik Edberg Mar 18th, 2007 at 8:04 pm

    Dominique: Thank you. I´m glad the video inspired you so much. :)

  5. 5 hannah Mar 20th, 2007 at 4:48 pm

    thank you for this. i can related to much of this growing up. My parents wanted me to be a mathematician. I wanted to be an architect because i loved to draw. They told me i would never get a job in that, and showed me an article in Time Magazine on how math was the FUTURE….and now, years later, I am no longer a scientist, but a fitness coach. I teach adults how to move their bodies.

    thanks again for sharing this.

    Hannah

  6. 6 Henrik Edberg Mar 20th, 2007 at 10:19 pm

    Thank you for sharing, Hannah. I´m glad to hear that you´ve found what you wanted to work with.

  7. 7 Lars Mar 26th, 2007 at 8:52 pm

    brilliant speech!

  8. 8 Anonymous Jun 13th, 2007 at 1:23 am

    This is amazing! I’ve been wondering “Why can’t schools teach the arts more?” for ages! Thank you for posting this!

  9. 9 Flor Jul 5th, 2007 at 12:51 am

    Hi Henrik
    Thank you so much for addresing the topic of how schools can kill creativity. I’m very inerested in these kind of things and thought you might be interested in watching these 3 videos in youtube, They are along the lines of The Secret movie, with a strong focus on education and personal growth. They are veeery uplifting…
    Hope you enjoy them,
    Flor

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THkS_3BafTU

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIRDCjAIZuI

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmL7nEpiFbc

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