A Nation In Mourning

Do Schools Kill Creativity? Lecture by Sir Ken Robinson

Sir Ken Robinson, Creativity Expert and Consultant to the British Government on educational reforms, speaks about how we have to rethink and reshape our education systems for the 21st Century.

University degrees are no longer prized treasures, which then means that their worth towards a person's success is no longer of value. Instead, a person's self-creativity and independence of ability will be the determining factors.

Yet, schools are precisely conditioning and repressing a child's natural talents, forcing conformity to an educational norm of discipline, regurgitation of facts, and drilled responses. Under such a system, there will be no Shakespeare, no Einstein, no Andrew Llyod Webber. They would have been deemed too different, ill-disciplined, and abnormal.

Enjoy the lecture by Sir Ken. Full of insights and wit.