{"id":993,"date":"2006-07-30T20:15:13","date_gmt":"2006-07-31T04:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=993"},"modified":"2006-07-30T20:15:13","modified_gmt":"2006-07-31T04:15:13","slug":"ken-robinson-on-creativity-and-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/ken-robinson-on-creativity-and-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Robinson on creativity and education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have a listen to Sir Ken Robinson, from the TED conference, on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/tedtalks\/tedtalksplayer.cfm?key=ken_robinson&#038;flashEnabled=1\">creativity and education.<\/a> \u00a0 It&#8217;s a great talk filled with humour and deep insight about how the public education system does not serve creativity, children or our collective future. \u00a0 Some quotes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All kids have tremendous talents, and we squander them.<\/p>\n<p>Creativity is as important as literacy and we should teach it with the same status.<\/p>\n<p>Kids will take a chance&#8230;if they don&#8217;t know, they&#8217;ll have a go. \u00a0 They&#8217;re not frightened of being wrong&#8230;If you&#8217;re not prepared to be wrong you&#8217;ll never come up with anything original&#8230;We stigmatize mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t grow <em>into<\/em> creativity, we grow <em>out<\/em> of it, or more precisely we are <em>educated<\/em> out of it.<\/p>\n<p>I believe our only hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology&#8230;we have to rethink the fundamental principles upon which we are educating our children.<\/p>\n<p>We may not see this future but [our children] will, and our job is help them make something of it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Go listen to the lecture and let me know what you think&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have a listen to Sir Ken Robinson, from the TED conference, on creativity and education. \u00a0 It&#8217;s a great talk filled with humour and deep insight about how the public education system does not serve creativity, children or our collective future. \u00a0 Some quotes: All kids have tremendous talents, and we squander them. Creativity is as important as literacy and we should teach it with the same status. Kids will take a chance&#8230;if they don&#8217;t know, they&#8217;ll have a go. \u00a0 They&#8217;re not frightened of being wrong&#8230;If you&#8217;re not prepared to be wrong you&#8217;ll never come up with anything original&#8230;We &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[9,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning","category-unschooling"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-g1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}