Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
Ken Robinson: Eski lekol touy kreativite?
Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we're educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence. Full bio
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running through the conference
to what I want to talk about.
evidence of human creativity
extraordiner de kreativite
and the range of it.
that it's put us in a place
nou dan enn sitiasion
what's going to happen,
tousala kapav deroule.
has an interest in education.
interese ek ledikasion.
at dinner parties, frankly.
invite a bann dine.
you're not asked.
personn napa invit ou.
That's strange to me.
Mo trouv sa bien etranz.
dir sa kikenn, ou kone,
you know, "Why me?"
they pin you to the wall.
ledikasion, zot irite.
that goes deep with people, am I right?
pou dimounn, pa vre?
and I think we all do.
ek mo panse ki nou tou interese.
that's meant to take us into this future
sipoze gid nou dan sa fitir
children starting school this year
pe koumans lekol sa lane la
on parade for the past four days,
finn trouve sa kat dernie zour la,
in five years' time.
to be educating them for it.
pu fer fas sa lemond la.
I think, is extraordinary.
capacities that children have --
bann kapasite extraordiner --
was a marvel, wasn't she?
she's not, so to speak,
of extraordinary dedication
enn dedikasion extraordiner
all kids have tremendous talents.
ena bann gran talan,
is as important in education as literacy,
bizin osi inportan ki alfabetism
with the same status.
avek mem linportans.
Mersi.
-- I love telling it --
ek mo kontan rerakont li.
who was in a drawing lesson.
at the back, drawing,
derier, pe desine.
hardly ever paid attention,
and she said, "What are you drawing?"
drawing a picture of God."
knows what God looks like."
kone bondie kouma resanble."
"They will, in a minute."
dan enn ti moman."
katran dan Langleter --
everywhere, to be honest.
wherever he went, he was four that year.
li ti ena katran sa lane la.
Do you remember the story?
Zot rapel so zistwar?
you may have seen it.
kapav zot inn gete.
which we were thrilled about.
nou ti bien kontan.
one of the lead parts.
enn bann rol prinsipal.
full of agents in T-shirts:
ar bann t-shirt ki dir
(Riye)
where the three kings come in?
trwa lerwa vini la?
gold, frankincense and myrrh.
lor ek lobann.
they just went out of sequence,
ki zot inn bliye enn sekans
afterward and we said,
"Yeah, why? Was that wrong?"
"Wi, kifer? Sa pa ti bon?"
on their heads,
ti serviet lor latet.
"I bring you gold."
"Monn amenn lor."
"I bring you myrrh."
"Monn amenn lobann."
"Frank inn avoy sa."
is that kids will take a chance.
an komun, seki zot oze.
frightened of being wrong.
tansion zot pena rezon.
is the same thing as being creative.
se mem zafer ki et kreatif.
if you're not prepared to be wrong,
pa pre pou pena rezon,
with anything original --
most kids have lost that capacity.
zanfan perdi sa kapasite la.
frightened of being wrong.
national education systems
sistem ledikasion nasional
thing you can make.
zafer ki ou kapav fer.
we are educating people
that all children are born artists.
as we grow up.
artis letan nou grandi.
that we don't grow into creativity,
ki nou pa aprann me blie
until about five years ago.
Stratford-on-Avon.
from Stratford to Los Angeles.
Los Angeles depi Stratford.
what a seamless transition that was.
sa tranzision la ti fasil.
called Snitterfield,
landrwa apel Snitterfield
Shakespeare's father was born.
Ek mwasi ti parey.
having a father, do you?
of Shakespeare being a child, do you?
Shakespeare ti enn zanfan, non?
English class, wasn't he?
to Shakespeare, "Go to bed, now!
"William, al dormi aster la mem!
from Stratford to Los Angeles,
Stratford pu al Los Angeles,
about the transition.
lor sa tranzision la.
he's 21 now, my daughter's 16.
21 an, mo tifi ena 16 an.
a girlfriend in England.
enn kopinn Langleter.
their fourth anniversary,
zot katriem laniverser,
another girl like Sarah."
enn lot tifi kouma Sarah."
about that, frankly --
we were leaving the country.
kifer nou ti pe kit pei.
when you move to America
has the same hierarchy of subjects.
mem yerarsi dan bann size.
otherwise, but it isn't.
and at the bottom are the arts.
net bann size artistik.
there's a hierarchy within the arts.
lot yerasi ant sak size artistik.
given a higher status in schools
system on the planet
important, but so is dance.
inportan, me danse osi.
if they're allowed to, we all do.
nou les zot, nousi parey.
Did I miss a meeting?
Ou eski monn rat kitsoz?
as children grow up,
kan nou edik zanfan,
from the waist up.
nou mont ziska zot latet.
education, as an alien,
"Ledikasion piblik ki servi?",
if you look at the output,
si ou get rezilta,
points, who are the winners --
bann gagnan --
the whole purpose of public education
ki rol ledikasion piblik,
professors, but you know,
liniversite, me ou kone,
of all human achievement.
out of affection for them.
parski mo bien kontan zot.
about professors in my experience --
profeser, dapre mwa --
they live in their heads.
and slightly to one side.
in a kind of literal way.
of transport for their heads.
transpor pou zot latet.
their head to meetings.
latet dan bann reunion.
of out-of-body experiences,
lexperians andeor lekor,
conference of senior academics,
avek bann akademik senior,
on the final night.
writhing uncontrollably, off the beat.
pe zigile san aukenn ritm.
go home and write a paper about it.
zot pou ekrir enn lartik lor la.
on the idea of academic ability.
lor capasite akademik.
no public systems of education,
sistem ledikasion piblik
to meet the needs of industrialism.
lindistrializasion ti bizin sa.
subjects for work are at the top.
pli itil pu lao net.
probably steered benignly away
finn detourne depi
were a kid, things you liked,
kontan kan ou ti zanfan,
never get a job doing that. Is that right?
travay ou lavi avek sa, pa vre?
going to be a musician;
me ki prondeman antor.
is engulfed in a revolution.
our view of intelligence,
nou apel lintelizans,
the system in their image.
sa sistem la dapre zot mem.
of public education around the world
ledikasion piblik dan lemond,
of university entrance.
pou rant dan liniversite.
is that many highly-talented,
dimounn ki ena talan,
people think they're not,
panse ki zot koumsa
they were good at at school
zot ti bon dan lekol
or was actually stigmatized.
to go on that way.
than since the beginning of history.
depi koumansman listwar.
of all the things we've talked about --
de tou saki nounn koze --
effect on work, and demography
transform travay, ek demografi
if you had a degree, you had a job.
ena diplom, ou ti ena travay.
it's because you didn't want one.
se parski ou pa ti anvi travay.
(Riye)
to carry on playing video games,
pou kontign zwe video game,
the previous job required a BA,
kot avan ti bizin enn BA,
structure of education
our view of intelligence.
that we experience it.
depann lor tou kalite lexperians.
we think kinesthetically.
son, avek nou sans touse.
we think in movement.
abstre ou an mouvman.
of a human brain,
from a number of presentations,
depi ennta prezantasion,
which I define as the process
defini kouma prosesis
that have value --
through the interaction
ways of seeing things.
that joins the two halves of the brain
ki relie de lemisfer nou servo.
are better at multi-tasking.
madam pli bon dan multi-tasking.
but I know it from my personal life.
sa depi lexperians personel.
which is not often, thankfully.
ki pa ariv souvan, erezman.
but if she's cooking,
me kan li pe kwi,
she's painting the ceiling,
li kav pe penn plafon,
is shut, the kids are out,
laport ferme, zanfan deor,
if she comes in I get annoyed.
si li rantre mo agase.
I'm trying to fry an egg in here."
mo pe sey frir enn dizef la."
that old philosophical thing,
and nobody hears it, did it happen?
pa tande, eski linn vremem arive?
recently, which said,
in a forest, and no woman hears him,
bwa ek okenn madam pa tann li,
called "Epiphany,"
of interviews with people
avek bann dimounn
by how people got to be there.
zot inn arive dan lavi.
I had with a wonderful woman
avek enn madam extraordiner
have never heard of, Gillian Lynne.
and everybody knows her work.
zot tou konn so travay.
of The Royal Ballet,
lunch one day and I said,
Gillian, monn dimann li,
she was really hopeless.
okenn lespwar pou li.
wrote to her parents and said,
ti finn ekrir so paran pou dir ki
has a learning disorder."
problem aprantisaz.
she was fidgeting.
nek li bouzbouze.
Wouldn't you?
dir ki li ena ADHD, non?
hadn't been invented at this point.
ek ADHD pa ti ankor invante.
and she was there with her mother,
pies kouver ar dibwa senn,
on this chair at the end,
enn sez dan fon lasal
while this man talked to her mother
mama koz ar dokter la
Gillian was having at school.
her homework was always late; and so on,
pe rann devwar an retar, etc.
went and sat next to Gillian, and said,
al asiz akot Gillian ek dir li,
things your mother's told me,
we won't be very long,"
dan enn ti moman."
that was sitting on his desk.
ki ti lor so latab.
mother, "Just stand and watch her."
mama la, "Nek deboute gete."
and he turned to her mother and said,
lerla dokter la dir so mama,
isn't sick; she's a dancer.
malad, li zis enn danser.
how wonderful it was.
twa kouma sa ti merveye.
and it was full of people like me.
kot zot tou ti kouma mwa.
Who had to move to think.
Ki bizin bouze pou reflesi.
they did modern; they did contemporary.
dans modern, dans kontanporenn.
for the Royal Ballet School;
a wonderful career at the Royal Ballet.
enn bel karyer kot Royal Ballet.
from the Royal Ballet School,
musical theater productions in history,
teat mizikal kinn ena plis sikse.
and she's a multi-millionaire.
ek li enn multimilioner.
on medication and told her to calm down.
li medsinn ek dir li kalme.
that was triggered by Rachel Carson.
finn deklanse par Rachel Carson.
of human ecology,
konsepsion "ekolozi imenn",
to reconstitute our conception
for a particular commodity.
pou enn komodite an partikilie.
the fundamental principles
by Jonas Salk, who said,
were to disappear from the Earth,
on Earth would end.
lor later pou disparet.
disappeared from the Earth,
of life would flourish."
lor later pou epannwi."
of the human imagination.
limazinasion imenn.
that we've talked about.
ki nounn koze talerla.
our creative capacities
a traver rekonesans la rises
for the hope that they are.
kouma nou sours lespwar.
their whole being,
make something of it.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Ken Robinson - Author/educatorCreativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we're educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence.
Why you should listen
Why don't we get the best out of people? Sir Ken Robinson argues that it's because we've been educated to become good workers, rather than creative thinkers. Students with restless minds and bodies -- far from being cultivated for their energy and curiosity -- are ignored or even stigmatized, with terrible consequences. "We are educating people out of their creativity," Robinson says. It's a message with deep resonance. Robinson's TED Talk has been distributed widely around the Web since its release in June 2006. The most popular words framing blog posts on his talk? "Everyone should watch this."
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 2009 book, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything, is a New York Times bestseller and has been translated into 21 languages. A 10th anniversary edition of his classic work on creativity and innovation, Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative, was published in 2011. His 2013 book, Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life, is a practical guide that answers questions about finding your personal Element. In his latest book, Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That’s Transforming Education, he argues for an end to our outmoded industrial educational system and proposes a highly personalized, organic approach that draws on today’s unprecedented technological and professional resources to engage all students.
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