2:52 “We’ve all agreed nonetheless on the extraordinary capacities that children have. Their capacities for innovation. Serena last night was a marvel.”
3:07 “My contention is all kids have tremendous talents and we squander them … pretty ruthlessly.”
3:15 “My contention is that creativity now is as important in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status.”
5:37 “… kids will take a chance; if they don’t know, they will have a go. They’re not frightened of being wrong. Now, I don’t mean to say that being wrong is the same thing as being creative, but what we do know is, if you’re not prepared to be wrong you’ll never come up with anything original. If you’re not prepared to be wrong. And by the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity, they have become frightened of being wrong”
6:07 “We stigmatize mistakes. And we’re now running national education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you could make. And the result is we are educating people out of their creative capacities. Picasso once said this, he said that ‘All children are born artists, the problem is to remain an artist as we grow up'. […] We don’t grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather we get educated out of it.”
8:47 “Every education system on earth has the same hierarchy of subjects. Every one. Doesn’t matter where you go. You think it would be otherwise but it isn’t. At the top are Mathematics and Languages, then the Humanities and the bottom are the arts”
9:50 “Education, what’s it for? Who are the winners? I think you would have to conclude that the whole purpose of public education throughout the world is to produce university professors”
11:25 “Our education system is predicated on the idea of academic ability. And there’s a reason: the whole system was invented […] to meet the needs of industrialism”
12:15 “And the consequence is that many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they are not. Because the thing they were good at at school wasn’t valued or was actually stigmatized. And I think we can’t afford to go on that way.”
13:06 “We need to radically rethink our view of intelligence”
13:34 “In fact, creativity, which I define as the process of having original ideas that have value more often than not comes about through the interaction of different disciplinary ways of seeing things”
18:02 “I believe our only hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology. One in which we start to reconstute our conception of the richness of human capacity. […]we have to rethink the fundamental principles on which we’re educating our children”
18:57 “We have to be careful now that we use this gift [human imagination] wisely and that we avert some of the scenarios we’ve talked about; and the only way we’ll do it is by seeing our creative capacities for the richness they are and seeing our children for the hope that they are”
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