Bill Small's Blog » TED http://www.billsmallmusic.com/blog music, creativity, and the life of an entrepreneurial artist, coach and internet wanderer Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:30:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Creativity, education, etc http://www.billsmallmusic.com/blog/2009/08/creativity-education-etc/ http://www.billsmallmusic.com/blog/2009/08/creativity-education-etc/#comments Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:34:36 +0000 billsmall http://www.billsmallmusic.com/blog/?p=71 I wrote an article a few days ago that’s now lost on my dead hard drive. (yes the hard drive in my macbook took a powder and it doesn’t look like it’s coming back) The article was about art in the schools or the continuing decline thereof. But as I’ve been thinking about it, it’s not so much art programs missing from schools that’s so disturbing to me. Although I do find it disturbing. But it’s that lack of creativity in our education system that’s really scary. We don’t nurture creative thinking. We teach kids to use the left hemisphere of their brain and take tests well.

As I’ve been thinking along these lines for the past several days, I ran across this TED talk by Sir Ken Robinson. If you don’t know about TED, go here: http://www.TED.com

As a creativity coach I work with people to expand their creative abilities in any and every area of life. I think Sir Robinson may be my new favorite person. Here’s why:


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