Name:

Do Schools Kill Creativity – TED Talk, February 2006

by Ken Robinson, a creativity expert, author, and

educator

Please respond to the following questions.

1. According to Robinson, what is extraordinary about education?

2. What do we tend to do with kids who have tremendous talents?

3. What should we treat with the same status as literacy?

4. What happens if you are never prepared to do anything wrong?

5. How does Robinson’s quote about Picasso connect to education?

6. According to Robinson, every educational system in the world has

a hierarchy.

A. What is at the top?

B. What is at the bottom?

My Own Notes

7. Robinson Says that Hierarchy is rooted on two ideas. What are they?

A. One:

B. Two:

8. Robinson states that we know three things about intelligence. Please list them.

A.

B.

C.

Please react to each of the quotes below. What do you think this person means? Do you agree or disagree? Connect

this Education. What does it make you think?

9. "If all the insects were to disappear from the Earth, within 50 years all life on Earth would end. If all human

beings disappeared from the Earth, within 50 years all forms of life would flourish."

10. “Picasso once said this, he said that all children are born artists. The problem is to remain an artist as we grow

up. I believe this passionately, that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated

out if it. “