Do Schools Kill Creativity?



Ken Robinson :

Kids will take a chance. If they don't know, they'll have a go. They're not frightened of being wrong.

I don't mean to say that being wrong is the same thing as being creative.

....if you're not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original.

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 this way. We stigmatise mistakes. And we're now running education systems where mistakes are the worst things you can make.

The result is we are educating people out of their creative capacities.

Picasso once said, "All children are born artists. The problem is to remain an artist as we grow up."

I believe this passionately, we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it.

Or rather we get educated out of it.

(Via @MoreOJ)


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