“Like every newborn child, she has tremendous natural capacities,” he says. “Over the next few years she will learn to speak and develop all kinds of skills as she grows. She’ll become mathematically ...

In his first Talk, Schools Kill Creativity, education expert Sir Ken Robinson makes a moving case for creating an education system that nurtures, rather than undermines, creativity. In the second Talk ...

Let me say a few words about creativity. I’ve written a lot about this theme in other publications. Rather than test your patience here with repetition of those ideas, let me refer you to them if you ...

A leading expert in education and creativity told 750 mostly North Bay educators Monday to embrace the metaphor of agriculture as they work to reshape American schools. The centralized, standardized, ...

Music educator Richard Gill, recognised yesterday in the Queen’s birthday honours, highlights the problem. His complaint is the obsession in some schools with National Assessment Program — Literacy ...

You’re famous for your TED talk on how schools kill creativity. Your book Finding Your Element is more self-help. Did you scale down your ambition? No. At TED they think that talk has been seen by ...

In his classic tome Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative, Sir Ken Robinson includes a section entitled “The Roles and Principles of Creative Leadership.” I’m going to take some license and turn ...

Sir Ken Robinson’s TED Talks have been watched by more people than any other speaker in the conference’s history. Online, his three talks combined have gotten over 21 million views, but Robinson ...