Ken Robinson makes us aware of a problem concerning with all of us and our children: how the education system (which has been part of almost all of us) is stopping our capacities to be creative.
He says that all children are born with the capacity to be creative, but society punishes the mistakes we all make, so children will be afraid to do something new or different. In that aspect, children are being educated to not be creative.
Ken Robinson also says that the education institutions are working to produce "university teachers", because they want their student to "think": subjects such as maths or language are taught with a high level of importance, but other subjects like dance, music or art are secondary.. why is that? Because they want to train "heads".
The system is made because for what is considered more useful for the work (in a context of industrialism, so work understood obviously not as art). is also considered according to the academic habilities, and here is the mistake, because this hability is confused with "intelligence".
This is related with why education is made thinking in university: if somebody has bad grades at school, that person will this he/she is not intelligent enough. But he/she doesn't know that can have other habilities, such as dance, singing, painting, etc. Our system doesn't allow to discover that.
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