Sunday, May 18, 2008

notes from Sir Ken Robinson at TED talk

we are not educated in creativity, but rather created out of creativity.

whole point of educational system: is to produce university professors

they live in their heads, up there, and slightly to one side.
disembodied. look at bodies as a form of transport for the heads. it's a way of getting their heads to meetings. real evidence of out-of-body experience.

whole system was invented in 19th century, to meet needs of industrialism.

steered away from the things, based on idea that you won't get a job based on it.
academic ability as intelligence. many people think they're not intelligent because the thing they were good at it, isn't valued,

more people will be graduating from education than
suddenly degrees won't be worth anything.
academic inflation.

intelligence is dynamic. interactive. not compartmentalized.
Creativity comes about thru the interaction of different interdisciplinary ways of seeing things.

Educational system has mined our minds and stripped us.
gift of human imagination must be used wisely...to avert disaster.
see creative capacities

task is to educate their whole being so they can make a better future.

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