How to Foster Creativity in Children
SHARE Photo by Dragos Gontariu via Unsplash The TED talk with the most views—more than 70 million—is fascinating, inspiring and wrong. It features the late British educationalist, Ken Robinson, delivering a message that manages to be both grim and uplifting. Grim because he claims that schools are stultifying and kill children’s creativity; uplifting because Robinson expresses faith that all children could be brilliant, if adults would just get out of the way. Although Robinson’s argument fails, examining it can help us better understand the conditions that foster creativity, so ...