August 12, 2010

Sir Ken Robinson


“My contention is that creativity, now, 
is as important in education as literacy and 
we should treat it with the same status.”


Do Schools Kill Creativity?

Gets really good at 11 minutes
(he kinda spends time being funny before that but gets to some meat right at 11 min :)

And an AMAZING story about a girl who had a suspected "learning disorder," who was causing all kinds of trouble at school...   minutes 15 to 18 :)

"Somebody else would have put her on medication and told her to calm down"

seriously  :)

worth it

2 comments:

.Ang. said...

I was just thinking of this Ted talk today after I read natalie's Blog!

It's one of my fav's! Thanks for posting it!

Eric and Sarah said...

LOVE this address. Robinson is dead on. His stuff is great.