Creativity as important as literacy

Thanks to Bob Carlton for sending me this link to a talk that Sir Ken Robinson gave at the recent TED conference. It’s a wonderful — and funny and moving — 12 minutes about the importance of creativity, and our need to support it in education. Some quotes I couldn’t help jotting down:

"Creativity is as important as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status."

"If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything creative."

"We don't grow into creativity, we are educated out of it."

"We know three things about intelligence.... first, it's diverse; ... secondly it's dynamic; ... third, it's distinct..."

"We have to rethink the fundamental principles upon which we're educating our children... We have to see our creative capacities for the richness they are, and our children for the hope they are... and we have to educate their whole being..."