An article titled: How Schools Kill Creativity.

Title: How Schools Kill Creativity. Intro: - All of us have a huge vested interest in it, partly because it's education that's meant to take us into this future that we can't grasp. - Nobody has a clue. - And yet we're meant to be educating them for it. So the unpredictability is extraordinary. - All kids have tremendous talents. Body: - Kids will take a chance. If they don't know, they'll have a go. "They're not frightened of being wrong." - If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original. - By the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity. They have become frightened of being wrong. - We run our companies like this. We stigmatize mistakes. - Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects. - At the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and at the bottom are the arts. - There isn't an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. - As children grow up, we start to educate them progressively from the waist up. - Before the 19th century, there were no public systems of education. - They all came into being to meet the needs of industrialism. - Number one, that the most useful subjects for work are at the top. - The second is academic ability, which has really come to dominate our view of intelligence. - The whole system of public education around the world is a protracted process of university entrance. - The consequence is that many highly-talented, brilliant, creative people think they're not, because the thing they were good at at school wasn't valued, or was actually stigmatized. Conclusion: - 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. - Our task is to educate their whole being, so they can face this future. - We may not see this future, but they will.