Do schools kill creativity? | Sir Ken Robinson

We'll be right back." And they left her there. But when they came out, he put the radio on his desk. And when they came out, he said to his mother, "Look at her." And the moment they came out, she was on his feet, climbing up the beat of the music. They watched him for a few minutes and then he said to his mother, "Mrs. Lynne, Gillian is not sick; She is a ballerina. She "take her to a dance school." I asked him: "And then?" "She did. 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.

Auditioned for the Royal Ballet; became a soloist; 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, has given pleasure to millions and is a multi-millionaire. Someone else could have prescribed her medication and telling him 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 think 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 sapped our brains while we mine the earth: for a specific product. And in the future, it will not serve us well. 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 TED celebrates is the treasure of the human imagination. Now we must be careful to use it wisely and avoid some of the scenarios we talked about. And the only way is to see our creative abilities for the richness they are and see our children for the richness they are. hope that they are.

Our task is to educate their entire being, so that they are capable of facing this future. Maybe we do not see this future, but they will see it. And our duty is to help them do something with it. Thank you Thank you very much (Applause) .