TED talk: Does Education Kill Creativity?

[Sirotnikov]

I think that he speaks alot besides the point, but he has a convincing argument and nice examples.

[LordShiva]

WTF is TED?

[Wezil]

He'd hit it.

[Pekka]

In creativity, school kills does.

[Perfection]

Originally posted by LordShiva
WTF is TED?

http://www.ted.com/

[Japher]

wtf is school?

[OzzyKP]

I couldn't agree more, Siro.

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My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.
# George Bernard Shaw "Everybody's Political What's What"

Schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of the planet. No one believes any more that scientists are trained in science classes or politicians in civics classes or poets in English classes. The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders.
# John Taylor Gatto

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
# George Santayana

It is... nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wreak and ruin. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.
# Albert Einstein

My grandmother wanted me to have an education, so she kept me out of school.
# Margaret Mead

I loathed every day and regret every day I spent in school. I like to be taught to read and write and add and then be left alone.
# Woody Allen

I was happy as a child with my toys in my nursery. I have been happier every year since I became a man. But this interlude of school makes a somber grey patch upon the chart of my journey. It was an unending spell of worries that did not then seem petty, and of toil uncheered by fruition; a time of discomfort, restriction and purposeless monotony.
# Winston Churchill

[Blake]

My biggest regret in life; not leaving the schooling system at age 15.
# Blake Walsh




School (and later university) NEARLY killed my creativity, inspiration and talent, but luckily, I got better!

[OzzyKP]

Yea, it did a number on me as well, and I'm not nearly better yet.

[Heraclitus]

The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders.

That’s what they are there for. The irony is that I learned that in a primary school sociology class.

However I agree on most of the other quotes, I'm quite displeased at the prospect that the formal education I got & am getting is practically one of the best that there is, that is a very depressing thought for me, I wonder what hope is there for those without insatiable curiosity, the ones that resent all learning because of school?

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Perfection
http://www.ted.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porkpie

[VetLegion]

TED seems to be a conference where you go to do some networking with cool people. Speakers are good and many videos are worth watching.

I didn't watch this one but I wouldn't agree that traditional education can kill creativity, curiosity and whatnot. If that were true all of us who are products of such schooling would be mindless drones incapable of doing anything interesting. Not so!

[Heraclitus]

We never said that all people are mindless drones, just the vast majority.

[VetLegion]

So what separetes a drone from someone who is not a drone?

[Heraclitus]

Several disparate possibilities exist in the same way different mechanism for immunity can develop for the same disease. A common one might be an unusually strong imagination that manages to disconnect from the horrible process and escapes into its own imaginary world. A world filled with delusions of power and the like.