Why Sir Ken Robinson said schools ‘educate people out of their creative capacities’
Sir Ken Robinson’s iconic TED warning about schools and creativity still reads like a diagnosis of today’s classrooms. From fear of being wrong to the quiet exile of the arts, students are trained to trade imagination for safety, compliance and marks. His charge that schools “educate people out of their creative capacities” now feels less provocation than stark lived description.
Sir Ken Robinson’s iconic TED warning about schools and creativity still reads like a diagnosis of today’s classrooms. From fear of being wrong to the quiet exile of the arts, students are trained to trade imagination for safety, compliance and marks. His charge that schools “educate people out of their creative capacities” now feels less provocation than stark lived description.
