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title: "Teaching for Creativity"
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resource_person: "Sir Ken Robinson"
resource_person_role: "Author and international adviser on creativity, education and the arts"
vertical: "pedagogy"
module: "In and Beyond the Classroom"
lesson: "Teaching for Creativity"
lesson_key: "teaching-for-creativity"
source: "curated"
source_channel: "TED"
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# Teaching for Creativity: Highlights

**Resource person:** Sir Ken Robinson - Author and international adviser on creativity, education and the arts

**Curated from:** TED

1. 02:24 — Education prepares learners for a future whose conditions remain uncertain.
2. 03:13 — Creativity deserves serious curricular status alongside foundational literacies.
3. 05:34 — Students need room to attempt an answer; a climate of fear suppresses original work.
4. 08:43 — Robinson identifies a recurring hierarchy that places some subjects and modes of expression above others.
5. 11:15 — A narrow model of academic ability can hide strengths that school rarely values.
6. 13:09 — Intelligence is presented as diverse, dynamic and interactive; creativity generates original ideas with value.
7. 15:20 — Gillian Lynne’s story illustrates the cost of overlooking embodied talent and leads to a broader view of human capacity.