The main idea of the talk is quite interesting: that everyone is interested in education. The world is completely unpredictable and no one knows what the world is going to be like a year from now, and yet we are educating our children to prepare for it. Mr. Robinson makes the argument that we as a society need to rethink how we teach our children. We believe that a degree and ability in core subjects taught in school are what defines intelligence, but creativity. We need to accept that different people have different abilities, and that each one of us has a talent, we are just made to believe we only have one that the world views as intelligence. Other points Mr. Robinson made were as follows:
- Creativity is as important as literacy
- Children are not frightened to be wrong.
- If you are not prepared to be wrong, you are no longer creative.
- We are educating children out of their creativity.
- Creativity is not focused on in school, but core subjects like Math and Language and Science.
- Our society teaches the creativity is less.
- We need to rethink the way we teach and see intelligence.
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