Is Everyone Creative?

TED* talk by Sir Ken Robinson

In this video, Robinson argues passionately that as children we are all naturally creative, yet by the time we reach adulthood our creativity has been 'educated out of us' by the barriers of school, society and corporate business.

"We have to see our creative capacities for the richness they are and see our children for the hope that they are."

The comments at the end of the article are lively and diverse, and the article also presents an alternative viewpoint by Gordon Torr (Managing Creative People). Though I admit to being pretty firmly in Sir Ken's camp, Torr does score some points by introducing variables like motivation and personality into the mix.

*TED = Technology, Entertainment, Design - website is called TED - Ideas Worth Spreading, and they're not kidding. Where would you like to go today?

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples, each of us has one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange ideas, then each of us has two ideas. - George Bernard Shaw

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