This hugely inspiring 20 minute video is of a talk given by Sir Ken Robinson at TED 2006. It's well worth a watch as he lays bare the point that the current school system is not designed to produce creativity...
He tells the story of an 8 year old girl in the 1930s who had classic symptoms of 'ADHD', long before the term was invented. Her school had complained that she didn't listen in class and couldn't keep still, so her mother took her to a doctor. He listened then told the little girl that he wanted to talk to her mother outside and left the room. On the way out he turned on the radio. As soon as they left the room the little girl jumped up and started moving to the music.
The doctor turned to the Mother and said: "your daughter is not ill - she is a dancer." She enrolled in a dance school and went on to great things. That little girl was Gillian Lynne - the choreographer of Cats and many other successful musicals.
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