Thoughts on Sir Ken Robinson's TED Talk, "The Importance of Creativity"

Here's the clip.

To summarize, education:

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I'd like to have a pint or twelve with Sir Ken. Beyond his wit and charm (man, now it sounds like I want to make out with the guy), he's absolutely and totally correct in everything he says, without fail, not to put too fine a point on it.

I think his points about dance and drama are exceptionally insightful: at the risk of insulting Cartesian dualists who might be reading this post -- let's pretend that is even slightly probable -- the concept of mind/body separation is sort of silly given what we know about the human brain, and frankly, schools worldwide would do well to integrate more physical learning into the curriculum. (Insert rant about obesity rates here.) And drama offers very basic and entirely vital educational merits beyond essential creative development, especially in linguistics. (Insert volumous studies and references here.)

As for the Picasso quote ("All children are born artists...") -- well, he nailed that one, but he also said that "Love is the greatest refreshment of all," and he's obviously wrong there, since the greatest refreshment of all is single malt scotch. Q.E.D., Pablo.