Sir Ken Robinson (1950-2020) gave a TedTalk in 2006 titled Do Schools kills Creativity?
« I heard a great story recently – I love telling it – of a little girl who have in a drawing lesson. She was six. And she was in the back drawing and the teacher said this little girl hardly ever paid attention, and in this drawing lesson she did. The teacher was fascinated. She went over to her and she said, ‘What are you drawing?’ And the girl said, ‘I’m drawing a picture of God.’ And the teacher said, ‘But nobody knows what God looks like.’ And the girl said, ‘They will in a minute.’ »
« Kids will take a chance. If they don’t know, they’ll have a go… They’re not frightened of being wrong. Now, I don’t mean to say that being wrong is the same thing as being creative. What we do know is, if you’re not prepared to be wrong, You’ll never come up with anything original. »
« And 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 like this. We stigmatize mistakes. »
« And the result is that we are educating people out of their creative capacities. »
« And the consequence is that many highly-talented, brilliant, creative people think they’re not. Because the thing they were good at at school wasn’t valued, or was actually stigmatized. »
« I believe this passionately, that we don’t grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out of it. »
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