How does education destroy creativity?

How does education destroy creativity? I have just watched this brilliant TED talk by Sir Ken Robinson, which has been viewed more than twenty million times!  The subject is whether schools kill creativity.  Our education is meant to prepare us for the future, but the future is so unpredictable that a typical education cannot prepare us for it.

Children have huge capacity for innovation and creativity, but we squander their talents with our education system. There should be as much emphasis on creativity as there is on literacy. Children are not afraid of being wrong, so they are prepared to try original ideas. By the time we reach adulthood we have stopped being creative because of our fear of being wrong. In schools, universities and companies, mistakes are stigmatised. As Ken puts it, we are educating people out of their creative capacities.

All around the world, education focuses primarily on maths and science, at the expense of the arts. This is designed to meet the needs of industry, so subjects are chosen to help children get jobs. The problem is that creative people are stigmatised.

Creativity and original ideas often come from the interaction of different ways of seeing things. We need to recognise the richness of human capacity, and rethink the way we educate our children.

Project 365

I set up this website after deciding that I want to build a more creative life for myself, so I can give up my job and be in control of my own destiny.

I have set myself a goal of publishing an article on my website every day this year, to document my journey from employment to self-employment.

The name I chose was Project 365 because I see this as a year that I have dedicated to learning and self-development, as I countdown to freedom. It started on 1st January 2021, so I have 246 days to go!