The TED talk to watch, by Sir Ken Robinson. It’s worth watching in its entirety (though it’s likely you already have), but if you only have a few seconds, go to the 5:29 mark. Or just read this excerpt:
Kids will take a chance. If they don’t know, they will have a go…they are not frightened of being wrong. I don’t mean to say that being wrong is being creative. But what we do know is that if you are not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original. By the time we get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity. They have become frightened of being wrong. And we run our companies like this by the way. We stigmatize mistakes. And now we’re running national education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make. And the result is we are educating people out of their creative capacities. Picasso once said this. He said, ‘All children are artists. The problem is to remain an artist as we grow up.’
FINALLY, SOMEBODY UNDERSTANDS ME ! !
“If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.” (Bill Gates)
Genius.
I can’t wait for the collapse of society so this can take shape.
Good stuff