Why Should You Care About Creativity? – with Sir Ken Robinson
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Sir Ken Robinson said that we’ve been educated to become good workers, not creative thinkers. I get the first part of that statement. I don’t want to be a cog in some corporate machine and I know you don’t either.
But since I have an audience of businesspeople — not painters — the big question I started this interview with is “Why should we care about creativity?” And if creativity is so important, how can we ensure we get more of it, even if we don’t feel we were born creative?
He answered both questions, and even gave me a nice compliment on my haircut.
Sir Ken Robinson is an author, speaker and international advisor on education in the arts to government, non-profits, education and arts bodies. He was Director of The Arts in Schools Project (1985-89), Professor of Arts Education at the University of Warwick (1989 – 2001) and was knighted in 2003 for services to education.
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