Do schools kill creativity? | Sir Ken Robinson

mother: "Look at her and the moment they came out, she was all over her." feet, increasing the rhythm of the music. They watched him for a few minutes and then he said to her mother, "Mrs. Lynne, Gillian is not sick; she is a dancer. "Take her to a dance school." I asked her, "And then?" "She is. I can't tell you how amazing she was. "We walked into a room and it was full of people like me. "People who couldn't sit still. "People who had to move to think." They did ballet, tap, jazz, and modern and contemporary dance.

She auditioned for the Royal Ballet; she became a soloist; She had a wonderful career there. She graduated from the Royal Ballet School, founded the Gillian Lynne Dance Company and met Andrew Lloyd Weber. She is responsible for some of the most successful musical theater productions in history, she has given pleasure to millions and is a multi-millionaire. Someone else could have prescribed medication and told her to calm down. (Applause) It all comes down to this: Al Gore spoke the other night about ecology and the revolution unleashed by Rachel Carson. I believe our only hope for the future is to embrace a new idea of ​​human ecology, one in which we begin to revise our concept of the richness of human capacity.

Our educational system has undermined our brains while we mine the earth: to obtain a specific product. And in the future, it won't help us. We need to rethink the fundamental principles with which we educate our children. Jonas Salk said: "If all insects disappeared from Earth, all life on Earth would become extinct within 50 years. "If all humans disappeared from Earth, all life forms would flourish within 50 years." And he's right .What TED What we celebrate is the treasure of the human imagination. We have to be careful to use it wisely and avoid some of the scenarios we talk about And the only way is to look at our creative abilities to see the richness that they are and.

The hope is that our task is to educate them to face this future. We may not see this future, but they will. Thank you very much. (Applause).