Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity | Video on TED.com

I agree wholeheartedly with Mr. Robinson. I have long believed and said that education as we know it only has one purpose---to create and mold a sustainable and pliant workforce. The parameters and prerequisites we place on ppl in relation to education and career mobility are there to create natural barriers and a "natural selection" process on the general populace. If it were not so, such terms as unemployable or underemployed would not exist; job fitness would be determined solely on ability to perform a task not on degree attained. Study the history of public education, its rise and acceptance into the mainstream of society. It will coincide with the need for a larger, cyclical, reproductive workforce. Education, is not about intellectual dexterity or a breadth of intelligence; but about who has the best ability for perfunctory memorization, rote regurgitation or a profound ability to network (ie cheat). Disagree if you’d like...but I know I'm right.


Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity | Video on TED.com