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Sir Ken Robinson: How to Escape Education's Death Valley

13 May 2013

Creativity expert, Sir Ken Robinson, challenges the way we're educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence.

In this funny, stirring TED Talk, he outlines three principles crucial for the human mind to flourish -- and how current education culture works against them. Robinson tells us how to get out of the educational "death valley" we now face, and how to nurture our youngest generations with a climate of possibility. Though primarily aimed at an American audience, there’s a universal message in this talk that can be applied to education systems around the world.

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