http://www.ted.com Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10

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1. the power of sense of humor
2. Funky Duck
3. it's very hard to start learn something but one's u go for it then nothing can stop u
4. i was never good at school but if i was givin a project i could do whatever i wanted i would flourish and actually have fun doing it well getting an A as well
5. Fokin legnd m8.
6. My favorite TED talk ever!
7. Should we have dropped the atomic bomb on Japan?
   
   A few assumptions:
   1. You can't find Japan on a map.
   2. You don't know what an A-bomb is.
   3. You are unfamiliar with Operation Downfall.
   4. You aren't sure of the dates of WWII or who Japan's allies were.
   5. Not sure if the depression happened before or after.
   6. You don't know about the island hopping campaign.
   7. The Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.
   
   How can you discuss that question intelligently if you don't know the basics. Can you write poetry without the alphabet, do anything having to do with finance without being good at math? If you toss your reading, writing, and arithmetic out and focus more on art and creativity then you raise people who are creative but with no skill set for getting a job. Plus most jobs do not need much creativity. 99% of the time you are part of a process. This holds true if you go into business, non-profit or government.
8. What a fantastic video, 10 years after it's posting it's still relevant.
9. An amazing speech.
10. How do you teach creativity? How do you teach people to have creative ideas which have value? I mean who decides they have value? Very entertaining talk but did we really learn anything from it?
11. The ultimate question of any school system is what to teach and how to teach it. If you go along with what is taught and how it's taught you will be successful in that system.
12. Well yes it does. Schools and colleges are training people how to accept and work the 9-5 and join the rat race which is BS.
13. I deeply admire this man!
14. Truly intelligent people use school to their advantage. The rest were just followers anyway, might as well teach them how to hold a screwdriver and be useful.
15. Rofl.... this man is fighting for creativity in schools and decides to hold a 20 minute monologue. What an educator! Someone make him a knight already. Oh too late. <\end sarcasm>
16. awesometacular joke
17. I can defiantly relate to school killing creativity...
18. you can't create greatness if the greats don't teach unfortunately the average teacher can't teach to the extent to encourage greatness . Too much time off too much 9 till 5 attitudes . bring back vocations eliminate false results for bonus payments. the world has been ruled by anyone gets it wrong gets hung and even when they're wrong they don't put it right . universities really should get into the real world . I agree diverse intelligence and remove universities. Education can be gained without them. EG I heard some got degrees by writing a paper altered from an original if that's true what are they learning. Or perhaps the wrong people attend. Why can't kids who do not get higher degrees can't go . another restriction to learning
19. This is my second year of Varsity , am I in to deep?
20. Why is anyone even debating this issue? Why are people committing resources and efforts to this question? The answer to this question is, YES! Schools kill creativity. Schools produce boilerplate individuals - one exactly like the other, knowing the same things as the other, and doing the same things as each other.