It is a little more than 10 years since Sir Ken Robinson gave his TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) talk, Do schools kill creativity? Forty million people have since watched him make what TED calls his “entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity”.
Sir Ken concluded his talk by saying: “Our education system has mined our minds in the way that we strip-mine the earth – for a particular commodity [academic…