Sunday, October 19, 2008

Where Has Creativity Gone?

Sir Ken Robinson focuses on creativity as being a crucial part of education. He goes on to explain how we squander the tremendous talents that students possess and how the structure of education must rise to highlight and nurture these capacities in order to meet today's needs and tomorrow's challenges.

The future is so uncertain and we can never be sure as to the direction education is taking, yet it is our job as teachers to predict this future and prepare our students for it. It is a future that we may never see . . . but they will! Will they be ready?

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