1. Sandra Müürisepp Tallinn 2012 S IR K EN R OBINSON

2. E ARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION  born 4 March 1950  originally from a working-class Liverpool family  contracted polio at age four.  He studied English and drama (B.Ed.) at University of Leeds (1968–1972) and completed a PhD in 1981 at the University of London, researching drama and theatre in education.

3. W HO ?  internationally recognized leader in the development of education, creativity and innovation  an author, speaker, and international advisor on education in the arts to government, non-profits, education, and arts bodies  works with governments in Europe, Asia and the USA, with international agencies, Fortune 500 companies and some of the world’s leading cultural organizations

4.  Director of The Arts in Schools Project (1985–89), Professor of Arts Education at the University of Warwick (1989–2001)  knighted in 2003 for services to education  Robinson now lives in Los Angeles with his wife Marie-Therese and children James and Kate

5. Q UOTES BY K EN R OBINSON  “If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.”  “Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are the arts.”  “I believe this passionately: that we don’t grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.”

6.  “Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they’re not — because the thing they were good at at school wasn’t valued, or was actually stigmatized.”  “There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?”  “Typically [professors] live in their heads. … They look upon their body as a form of transport for their heads. It’s a way of getting their head to meetings.”

7.  “You were probably steered benignly away from things at school when you were a kid — things you liked — on the grounds that you would never get a job doing that: ‘Don’t do music, you’re not going to be a musician. Don’t do art, you won’t be an artist.’ Benign advice — now, profoundly mistaken.”  “Very many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they have any to speak of.”

8. V IDEOS  http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_sc hools_kill_creativity.html http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_sc hools_kill_creativity.html  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4 U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4 U  http://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_bri ng_on_the_revolution.html http://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_bri ng_on_the_revolution.html

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