27/5/10

Inspiration comes from everywhere

A follow-up to the 2006 talk on creativity and talent (Schools kill creativity Feb 2006)

Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution!




straight from the horse's mouth




Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity Feb 2006


What we do know is, if you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original. If you're not prepared to be wrong. 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, by the way. We stigmatize mistakes. And we're now running national education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make. And the result is that we are educating people out of their creative capacities. Sir Ken Robinson, TED 2006




Moshe Safdie TED 2002 on Truth and Beauty


He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He who seeks gratification shall be disappointed. He who considers himself the servant of his fellow beings shall find the joy of self expression. He who seeks self expression shall fall into the pit of arrogance. Arrogance is incompatible with nature. Through nature, the nature of the universe, and the nature of man, we shall seek truth. If we seek truth, we shall find beauty. Moshe Safdie, TED 2002