Ken Robinson on Revamping the Education System

The entertaining speaker talks about making sure creativity is as important as literacy in all schools in the world.

"We have to rethink the fundamental principles on which we’re educating our children… If all the insects were to disappear from the earth, within 50 years all life on earth would end. If all humans disappeared from the earth, in 50 years all beings on Earth would flourish..

What TED celebrates is the gift of the human imagination. We have to be careful now that we use his gift wisely.. By seeing our creative capacities for the richness that they are and our children for the hope that they are..We might not see this future, but they will. And our job is to make sure they make the most of it."