Do schools kill creativity?

Please enjoy one of my all-time favorite videos from the TED conference (http://www.ted.com). Some of Dr. Robinson's ideas have really affected my personal teaching philosophy.

In it, he talks about creativity in children. His thesis is that children are naturally creative. Creativity isn't something they learn later in life, it is something they know from birth that is all-too-often forced out of them.

Please take the 20 minutes necessary to watch this video. It may very much influence your opinion on the subject. Also, he gives some very interesting examples of how he has seen creativity in children "handled."

-SS