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"...The result is that we are educating people out of their creative capacities. Picasso once said that all children are born artists. The trick is to remain an artist as we grow up. I believe this passionately: We don't grow into creativity; we grow out of it. Or, rather, we get educated out of it. Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.Something strikes you when you travel around the world: Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects. It doesn't matter where you go. You'd think it would be otherwise, but it isn't. At the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and at the bottom are the arts--everywhere on Earth. And in pretty much every system, too, there is a hierarchy within the arts. Music and art are normally given a higher status in schools than drama and dance. There isn't an education system on the planet that teaches dance every day to children the way we teach them mathematics.Why not? I think math is very important, but so is dance. Children dance all the time, if they're allowed to. What happens is that as children grow up, we start to educate them progressively from the waist up. Then we focus on their heads, and slightly to one side...."You know, Mrs. Lynne, Gillian isn't sick. She's a dancer. Take her to a dance school." I asked, "What happened?" and Gillian said, "She did. I can't tell you how wonderful it was. We walked into this room, and it was full of people like me. People who had to move to think." Who had to move to think."

Ken Robinson's TED talk . Transcript here


Why can't everybody think like this?

Why does it that we have to be taught to think in a way that the people who have mistakenly shaped the world, our country are some of the smartest bunch? Yet people everywhere are struggling to be like them.