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Do schools kill creativity?

Date: May 5, 2007

Ken Robinson speaking about traditional education and its inability to foster creativity and innovation.

Worth a listen. It’s a great presentation, and he’s a very funny public speaker!

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Paal

May 7, 2007 at 1:55 am

that was a very good presentation. a lot of good points…
i could’ve managed without cats, though :p

i need to become a teacher and confiscate all prescripted drugs from my students…

ceeque

May 14, 2007 at 12:53 am

what a great and utterly amazing speaker, so well stated in such a humourous way and so “on the money”…..brilliant stuff.

kav p

May 26, 2007 at 6:02 pm

Managed to free some space up and finally watched it. Are you happy now? DX

But yes, it was a fascinating watch. He’s restating some established opinions re. multiple intelligences but he’s doing it in an approachable and very convincing manner. I hope his contribution helps speed up the process of implementing it more efficiently in our education systems, dammit.