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TEDDo schools kill creativity? | Sir Ken Robinson | TED
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Sir Ken Robinson, speaking at a TED conference, argues that the current global education system is systematically destroying children's innate creativity. He opens by observing that creativity is as important as literacy and should be treated with the same status, and illustrates children's natural willingness to take risks and be wrong — qualities he sees as essential to original thought — through humorous anecdotes about a six-year-old drawing God and his son's Nativity play.
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If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original. And by the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity.
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Willingness to be wrong is a prerequisite for originality, yet schooling frightens children away from that risk before adulthood.
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A chat gives you one summary, and you cannot check any of it without re-reading the source. Yank gives you two different summaries plus the evidence. The AI summary tells the whole story in plain prose, labelled as Yank's words. The Yank Summary lists the few things worth knowing, each linked to the second, page or passage where the source says it. Every number and name in both is checked against the source. Then come the five lines worth keeping, found in the source itself and labelled verbatim or distilled. Each line is a Yank card with its own permanent address, ready to save and share, and each carries a receipt showing exactly where it came from. We ran the experiment on the same article and asked ChatGPT itself which one to use; its answer is on the page. More
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