TEDTalk: Schools kill creativity

While in Cape Town Dave showed me this video. (Thanks Dave!) I’ve now watched it over and over. It is simply brilliant. If there is one video you should watch (specially if you have or are going to have kids) it is this one!

It is a scary thought how way behind our school curriculum still is and at what pace our world is changing at the moment. I agree with Ken that conventional schools should seriously learn to adapt.

Another statement I simply LOVE is “If you’re not prepared to be wrong you’ll never come up with anything original.” So often we are guilty by pressuring our kids not to fail. Whether in sport or academic, we live in a society where failure and mistakes bare a very low tolerance , which is so wrong! Even ourselves. We’re too scared to do something new as we’re scared we would fail. It is sad actually!

Its a long video (almost 20 minutes), but well worth watching.

2 Comments to "TEDTalk: Schools kill creativity"

• Henre said: On 11/02/2007 at 2:03 pm

  I’ve watched it and it’s brilliant. Going to burn it to disk and give to my mommy. She’s in education and will love this.

• Dave said: On 11/04/2007 at 5:19 pm

  Nice one on sharing this Stii. I should have put it on my blog ages ago - more people need to see this!!

Spit it out!

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