Do schools kill creativity?

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Ken Robinson

Sir Ken Robinson is an internationally recognized leader in the development of creativity, innovation and human resources. He has worked with national governments, international agencies, Fortune 500 companies, not-for-profit corporations and some of the world's leading cultural organizations. He is author of Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative.

By Ken Robinson

Published on 04/5/2008

My contention is that creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status... Truthfully what happens is, as children grow up we start to educate them progressively from the waist up. And then we focus on their heads. And slightly to one side.