Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?

Watch the following talk and complete the gaps in the sentences according to what Ken
Robinson says. Why do schools kill creativity for him? Do you agree?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY

1) Ken Robinson says he has an interest in ________________ and that people are
also interested in this subject in the same way as in __________ and ___________.
2) Children starting school this year will be retiring in __________. This shows the
________________ of education.
3) He says that children have a great capacity for ________________ and that
________________ is as important as literacy.
4) What did the little girl who was drawing a picture of God answer when her teacher
said “but nobody knows what God looks like”?
5) Why is it necessary to be prepared to be wrong according to him? Why do children
lose this capacity?
6) How did Robinson’s family feel when his son said he would never find another girl
like Sarah?
7) Complete the hierarchy of subjects every education system in the world has
according to Ken.
Mathematics
………………………….
…………………………
Arts: Art
………………………………
Drama
………………………………
8) The whole purpose of public education around the world is to produce _________,
who look at their bodies as a form of transport for their _______________.
9) Public education is based on the concept of academic ability because in the 19 th
century it had to meet the needs of _________________. However, thewhole
world is engulfed in a _____________________ today.
10) Ken Robinson characterises intelligence as d…………………….., d………………………….
and d………………………….
11) What does he say about Julian Lynn, the choreographer of “CATS”? What point is
he trying to make?

Prof. Marcela Racelis