Schools Kill Creativity

Research on the Education System That Kills Creativity

Books

Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity - the first book of Hugh MacLeod, the popular author of gapingvoid.com

Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative - How we unlearn to be creative at school and what we can do against it; how to learn to be creative again.

The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything - Sir Ken Robinson's best-selling book based on a collection of interviews with highly successful people.

The Leader in Me: How Schools and Parents Around the World Are Inspiring Greatness, One Child At a Time - a real case book on how the 7 Habits paradigm was applied in teaching leadership to kids; by Stephen R. Covey (2008)

Videos

Sir Ken Robinson's famous speech at TED - Do schools kill creativity? Sir Ken Robinson's famous speeech at the TED conference in Monterey, CA (2006)

The transcript of Sir Ken Robinson's speech at TED - download the transcript of Ken Robinson's speech here (PDF)

Amy Tan on Creativity - Amy Tan on Creativity - another TED speech, filmed Feb 2008

Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity - Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity - another great speech at the TED Conference, recorded Feb 2009

Organizations

Americans For The Arts - Americans For The Arts; Keep Arts in Our Schools; AFTA is the leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts in America.

Blog posts

Is College Obsolete? - One hundred years ago college didn't matter for getting a job. Nowadays, colleges, credentialism and hierarchies have commonly failed and hyperlinks replaced them. An insightful blog post by Alex Krupp (2009)
What is School For? - we spend a lot of time and money on schools but not many people ask the question, what it's really good for to go to school; Seth Godin's blog post (2009)
Life Without School - a thoughtful reflection on Sir Ken Robinson's address at TED by a homeschooling mother of three kids
Another Blog Post - another blog post at ScienceBlogs, with some interesting comments reflecting on Ken Robinson's lecture
A blog post at Superdistribution.net - a nicely written article reflecting on Ken Robinson's speech; by Sören Stamer (2007)

Academic sources

scholar.google.com - Do a quick search on Google Scholar
Scientific Literature Digital Library - Scientific Literature Digital Library
INDERSCIENCE.com - INDERSCIENCE PUBLISHERS; Publishers of distinguished academic, scientific and professional Journals
Scientific Commons - a Community for Scientific Information (BETA)

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