CREATIVITY - YOURS
WHY CHOOSE ʻiGNITE YOUR GENIUSʼ COACHING?
"....EDUCATING PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR CREATIVITY...."
Why don't we get the best out of people?
Sir Ken Robinson argues that it's because we've been educated to become good workers, rather than creative thinkers. Students with restless minds and bodies -- far from being cultivated for their energy and curiosity -- are ignored or even stigmatized, with terrible consequences. "We are educating people out of their creativity," Robinson says. It's a message with deep resonance. Robinson's TED Talk has been distributed widely around the Web since its release in June 2006.
A visionary cultural leader, Sir Ken led the British government's 1998 advisory committee on creative and cultural education, a massive inquiry into the significance of creativity in the educational system and the economy, and was knighted in 2003 for his achievements. His latest book, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything, a deep look at human creativity and education, was published in January 2009.
“If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.”
“All kids have tremendous talents — and we squander them pretty ruthlessly.”
“Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.”
“Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are the arts.”
“I believe this passionately: that we don’t grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.”
“It’s education that’s meant to take us into this future that we can’t grasp.”
“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.”
“There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?”
“Typically [professors] live in their heads. ... They look upon their body as a form of transport for their heads. It’s a way of getting their head to meetings.”
“We are educating people out of their creative capacities.”
“You don’t think of Shakespeare being a child, do you? Shakespeare being seven?He was seven at some point. He was in somebody’s English class, wasn’t he? How annoying would that be?”