Do schools today kill creativity? (Ken Robinson, TEDTalks)

It’s a long video, but it’s worth a listen. I’m not going to summarize, because I can’t capture Ken Robinsons amusing delivery. However, I will pull a short quote for my professor friends.

“If you were to visit education, public education as an alien and say, what is it for? If you look at the output, who really succeeds, who does everything they should and gets all the brownie points, who are the winners? I think you would have to conclude that the whole purpose of public education, throughout the world, is to produce university professors.

They are rather curious, and I say this out of affection for them. In my experience, not all of them, but typically, they live in their heads. They live up there and slightly to one side. They are disembodied, in a kind of literal way.

They look about their body as a form of transport for their heads; it’s a way of getting their head to meetings.”