Do schools kill creativity Sir Ken Robinson TED.wav I heard a great story recently --
-- of a little girl who was in a drawing
. She was six, and
, drawing, and
, and in this drawing lesson, she did.
.
She went over to her, and she said, "
?"
And the girl said, "
of God."
And the teacher said, "
."
And the girl said, "
."
When my son was four in England -- actually,
, to be honest.
If we're being strict about it, wherever he went,
.
He was in the Nativity play.
?
No, it was big, it was a big story.
Mel Gibson did the sequel,
.
"Nativity II."
But James got the part of Joseph, which
about.
. We had the place crammed full of agents in T-shirts: "James Robinson IS Joseph!"
, but you know the bit where the three
come in? They come in bearing gifts,
, frankincense and myrrh. This really happened.
, and I think they just went out of sequence, because we talked to the little boy afterward and said, "You OK with that?" They said, "Yeah, why?
?" They just switched. The three boys came in, little four-year-olds with tea towels on their heads. They put these boxes down, and the first boy said, "I bring you
." And the second boy said, "I bring you myrrh." And the third boy said, "Frank sent this."
What these things have in common is that
. If they don't know,
. Am I right?
.
I don't mean to say that
.
What we do know is, if you're not prepared
, you'll never come up with
-- if you're not prepared to be wrong. And
, most kids
.
. And we run our companies like this.
. And we're now running
where
. And the result is that
.
Picasso once said this,
. The problem is
. I believe this
, that we don't grow into
,
. Or rather,
. So why is this?
I lived in Stratford-on-Avon
. In fact, we moved from Stratford to Los Angeles. So you can imagine what a seamless
this was.
, we lived in a place called Snitterfield, just outside Stratford, which is where Shakespeare's father
. Are you struck
? I was. You don't think of Shakespeare
, do you?
Because you don't think of Shakespeare
, do you? Shakespeare
?
. I mean,
. He was in somebody's English class, wasn't he?
How
would that be?
"Must try harder."
Being sent to bed by his dad, to Shakespeare, "Go to bed, now!"
To William Shakespeare.
"And put the
down!"
"And stop
like that."
"It's
everybody."