DON’T BLAME TEACHERS UNIONS FOR OUR FAILING SCHOOLS | Intelligence Squared US. Ken Robinson: Changing education paradigms. TED and Reddit asked Sir Ken Robinson anything — and he answered. For the first in a new series of community-driven Q&As, TED and Reddit joined forces to ask creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson any question. TED fans converged on this article on Reddit to post their questions, and to vote on questions posed by others. Today, we asked Sir Ken the 10 questions with the most votes. Here are his answers: submitted by kn0thingWhat specific actions do you recommend taking to overhaul, say, public education to maximize how we identify and nurture creativity? And what place do you think things like critical thinking and logic (also noticeably absent) have in basic education? Sir Ken: The basis of my argument is: creativity isn’t a specific activity; it’s a quality of things we do. You can be creative in anything — in math, science, engineering, philosophy — as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.
And that really has a couple of implications. So that’s the first thing: Creativity can be facilitated in any sort of activity. Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity. Charles Leadbeater: Education innovation in the slums.