Sir Ken Robinson: TED Talk on Creativity

"Around the world, there were no public [schooling] systems, really, before the 19th century. They all came into being to meet the needs of industrialism. So, the hierarchy is based on two ideas:

1.) The most useful subjects for work are at the top. So you were probably steered away from subjects you liked [art, music...] on the grounds you'll never get a job doing that. Benign advice. Now, profoundly mistaken. The whole world is engulfed in revolution.

2.) Academic ability, which has really come to dominate our view of intelligence. The universities designed the system in their image. The whole system of public [schooling] around the world is a protracted process of university entrance. The consequence is that many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they're not, because the thing they were good at at school wasn't valued, or was actually stigmatized.

And I think we can't afford to go on that way.

...Suddenly, degrees aren't worth anything.

We need to rethink our views of intelligence."

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Craig
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