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A clip from Sir Ken Robinson’s TED Talk “Do schools kill creativity?” from TED2006
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.
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My contention is, all kids have tremendous
talents.
And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.
I heard a great story recently — I love telling
it —
of a little girl who was in a drawing lesson.
She was six, and she was at the back, drawing,
and the teacher said this girl hardly ever
paid attention,
and in this drawing lesson, she did.
The teacher was fascinated.
She went over to her, and she said, “What
are you drawing?”
And the girl said, “I’m drawing a picture
of God.”
And the teacher said,
“But nobody knows what God looks like.”
And the girl said, “They will, in a minute.”
Kids will take a chance.
If they don’t know, they’ll have a go.
Am I right?
They’re not frightened of being wrong.
I don’t mean to say that being wrong
is the same thing as being creative.
What we do know is, if you’re not prepared
to be wrong,
you’ll never come up with anything original
—
if you’re not prepared to be wrong.
And by the time they get to be adults,
most kids have lost that capacity.
They have become frightened of being wrong.
And we run our companies like this.
We stigmatize mistakes.
And we’re 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 at school
wasn’t valued,
or was actually stigmatized.
And I think we can’t afford to go on that
way.
Picasso once said this, he said that all children
are born artists.
The problem is to remain an artist as we grow
up.
I believe this passionately, that we don’t
grow into creativity,
we grow out of it.
Or rather, we get educated out of it.
We have to be careful now that we use this
gift wisely,
and the only way we’ll do it is by seeing
our creative capacities
for the richness they are
and seeing our children for the hope that
they are.
And our task is to educate their whole being,
so they can face this future.
By the way —
we may not see this future, but they will.
And our job is to help them make something
of it.
Share this video
with someone whose creativity inspires you.
Shahid Khan
June 21, 2021 at 5:58 pm
Excellent approach
BrotherBloat
June 21, 2021 at 6:10 pm
This was easily the best Ted Talk of its time… RIP
Ihab M
June 21, 2021 at 6:11 pm
If you’re reading this and you haven’t watched the full speech.. make sure you do.. most famous and amazing Ted talk ever…. and so funny too!
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June 21, 2021 at 6:22 pm
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Raphael Vasconcellos
June 21, 2021 at 6:56 pm
Schools need to leave kids alone actually. Teaching kids how to become productive machines is against basic human development. Just let them play in peace
David Oliveira
June 21, 2021 at 7:16 pm
Really the third best Ted Talk video I’ve ever heard & watched
(two other being one about loneliness and another about reading)
D Jackson
June 21, 2021 at 7:36 pm
Actually for our society to continue functioning we need people to be more like drones. Just smart enough to run the machines but not enough to know their true value, or establish independence, security, community or wealth (all those things are a form of influence/power).
Mr Tina
June 21, 2021 at 7:40 pm
Creativity is basically to create something new. At school we are often educated to re-create something old
D Jackson
June 21, 2021 at 7:46 pm
Our education system is no accident. It isn’t incompetence that stifles our children’s creativity, it is meticulous planning.
Disrupting attention-span, motivation, curiosity and independence ensures they will remain dependent on others.
This is not in our best interest but we have become complacent and gluttonous on a very entertaining and opulent lifestyle (even if you’re poor in America you can get tasty junk-food and watch amazing sports events , absurd reality T.V., spend time on social medias, video games, etc.).
We’re highly incentivized to give into impulse and not progress individually. You will get countless military recruits, factory workers, retail/food-service, and other underpaid jobs that don’t have much of a future, or are not desirable by that person.
D Jackson
June 21, 2021 at 7:48 pm
It is on purpose we copied the Prussian education system. We now specialize in making followers and people who lack individual motivation/creativity. It is a lot more profitable for certain people but not for you and me…
Can you name the education system we use in this country? If no, why don’t they teach us that in school?
Zenn Exile
June 21, 2021 at 8:11 pm
Every generation throws away at minimum 17,000 Nikola Tesla caliber children. Every single fuking generation has an average of 17,000 chances to solve humanities problems. And we throw them all away for money. MONEY. Every single person on this planet worshiping profit is walking cancer. Society is rapidly approaching a point where a lead based cure directly injected into the brains of psychopathic wealth consolidators will be the ONLY option to move beyond these dark ages we still apparently live in.
iFone Fan
June 21, 2021 at 8:44 pm
Oh lord, I remember when this was first posted. Sooo long ago.
joe.public
June 21, 2021 at 8:58 pm
lol As if TED is interested in what Ken has to say.
The reality is TED has been working in the opposite direction from the beginning
RantKid
June 21, 2021 at 9:16 pm
the most classic TedTalk of all time. Yet to be topped.
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thousand miles
June 21, 2021 at 10:11 pm
The problem is: everything is art related whether we realize it or not. Food? Culinary arts. Probably why we’re called ‘artisons’ sons of artists. When you think of everything as art then all you have to do is nourish that aspect of it. Sweeping floors? Feel it move effortlessly under your hands, watch as it moves so smoothly, the motions, the behavior of it, eventually finding the simplest and best way to do it::: simply art.
Michael Rodriguez
June 21, 2021 at 10:41 pm
The video that this clip was taken from was the first Ted Talk I’ve ever watched. Definitely one of my favorites
Robert Leach
June 21, 2021 at 10:52 pm
Double think?
Sami Hammami
June 21, 2021 at 10:52 pm
TED belongs to the whole world. Sir you talk so fast. If your lecture is for your fellow country men and women, say it right from the bgg. Sorry
ViLLaN TheDooM
June 21, 2021 at 11:04 pm
Schools were made like they are for a reason, it’s not a considence it’s on porpuse. Schools are based on pirnicple and strict rules. Schools are built for power, power to the CEOs
Iama freespirit
June 21, 2021 at 11:59 pm
My parents forbid me to be a vetrenarian, stewardess, and my third and final choice was a racecar driver… BECAUSE in the early 60’s a girl didn’t need an education, BECAUSE she was going to be married after highschool anyhow…
So, it’s not just educaters who inadvertantly keep children from future success, it is parents, siblings (the child looks up to) and the child’s environment that keep children from succeeding!
Especially if a girl wants to enter into a male oriented work world!
Afungus Amungus
June 22, 2021 at 12:06 am
My teachers spent years telling me what could not be done, now I see my childhood dreams take life all around me. No child left behind means No child gets ahead.
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Mai Britton
June 22, 2021 at 1:41 am
I tell the kids I work with when they say they made a mistake. That they didn’t make a mistake , they are learning and how you learn is based on you as a individual. I don’t correct them when we do a art project. Correct what?
Arik Rahman
June 22, 2021 at 2:35 am
The title kinda outtta pocket
SAMCA San Andreas
June 22, 2021 at 2:49 am
Why Kids can’t express themselves…Common Core; courtesy of Bill Gates.
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June 22, 2021 at 5:15 am
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عباس العبودي
June 22, 2021 at 5:48 am
wow, they take art lessons in my country they always make art the last lesson so that we can go home without missing anything important.
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June 22, 2021 at 6:01 am
The one TED TALK that they won’t show in class.
Ashmita Pandey
June 22, 2021 at 6:13 am
(4-9/2) ^2
Souvik Chakraborty
June 22, 2021 at 6:21 am
I love you rupsa (was a dare)
Greg Gary
June 22, 2021 at 6:24 am
The original full version of this talk is must viewing, seriously. The industrial revolution inspired education system is worse than useless in the 21st century. All it does now is churn out consumers.
Gem Bonham-Horton
June 22, 2021 at 7:12 am
Here here 100%
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June 22, 2021 at 8:14 am
Am I the only one that came here expecting a talking Teddy to say………….well stuff? Any stuff but not this fucking drool. Who cares about how long a girls finger nails are, fuckin CLIP EM!
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horseshoe 182
June 22, 2021 at 8:34 am
totally agree. ken is a very good speaker.
Sam K
June 22, 2021 at 8:45 am
Hear Hear
KootFloris
June 22, 2021 at 9:40 am
The most essential question he asked in that talk is: “How do we prepare children for a future we don’t know yet?”
Creativity is one. Being able to solve problems, adapt life to new issues.
We need to stop drilling kids to fit the system as it is! It’s destroying the conditions of life on this planet.
Helping kids to be successful in a dysfunctional system isn’t helping. So, though not mentioned in the talk, Regenerative Design is two. And daring to challenge the system, overturn/deviate/change/adjust corporate and national powers that defend their status quo at the cost of everything else.
random_stranger
June 22, 2021 at 9:47 am
it’s the entire population of previous generations, not just our schools.
Gran Korona
June 22, 2021 at 10:35 am
Well said
Rishi Raj
June 22, 2021 at 2:32 pm
🙏👍
Pavan
June 22, 2021 at 3:38 pm
great
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June 22, 2021 at 5:15 pm
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XCAL 345
June 22, 2021 at 5:16 pm
The world is full of “PARA LIKHA GADHA” which translates from Hindi to English as “EDUCATED DUMMIES” people dont really know the meaning behind education anymore, its more like a ticket to places where they would eventually end up getting paid low or high depending on the quality of the content on the ticket.
Noukz
June 23, 2021 at 9:34 am
2006 and still I don’t see many changes… 🙁
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