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Education is as important as literacy.

If you're not prepared to be wrong you will never come up with anything original by the time children become adults they have lost that capacity, they are frightened of being wrong

We are educating children out of their creative capacities. Picasso once said, all children are born artists, the problem is to remain an artist as we grow up. I believe this, we do not grow into creativity, we grow out of it.

the most useful subjects are steerd on the top, because they will help you get a job

According to the UNESCO in the next 30 years more people will be graduating from unversities than since the beginning of history. Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Now you need an MA where before you needed a BA

We need to radically rethink our view of intelligence. We know three things:
-It's diverse: we think about the world in all the ways we experience it, we think visually, we think in sound kinisthetically, we think in abstract, in movement
-Intelligence is dynamic.
-It's distinct.

I believe our only hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology one in which we try to reconstitute the richness of human capacity. Our education system has "mined" our minds in the way that we strip mine the earth for a particular commodity, and for the future it won't serve us. We have to re

There is a wonderful quote by Jonas Salk who said "if all the insects were to dissapear from the earth, within 50 years all life form would end. If all humans beings dissappeared from the earth all life forms within 50 years would flourish." And he's right.

What TED celebrates is the gift of the human imagination, we have to be careful that we use this imagination wisely and that we avert some ofthe scenarios we have talked about and the only way we'll do it is by seeing our creative capacities for the richness they are and seeing our children for the hope that they are and our task is to educate their whole being so they can face this future. By the way we may not see this future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it.

SIR KEN ROBINSON
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.
He has chaired and given keynote presentations to Fortune 500, corporate, educational and cultural conferences throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, the Middle East and Asia. In 2001, he was voted SfB Business Speaker of the Year by over 200 global and European companies. In 2005 he was named as one of Time/Fortune/CNN's' Principal Voices'.