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.
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Education should develop our natural abilities
- By Ken Robinson
- Published 04/6/2008
- Nurturing talent
That’s
my big concern, that education is meant among other things to develop
people’s natural abilities, and I believe it really doesn’t do that. In
many cases, it divorces people from their natural talents.
Do schools kill creativity?
- By Ken Robinson
- Published 04/5/2008
- Creativity enhancement
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.