Masking mistakes can be terrifying, and Sir Ken Robinson says its destroying our young peoples’ creativity.

[or watch this video here]

Robinson makes a lot of really good points, and it makes me wonder, is American education really extinguishing creativity?

I love school, its a place to learn from people who are smarter than you. However, it seems that all young people do at school is have information shoved into their minds. Even now at the best schools, there is less creativity and more facts, not because anyone really wants it to be this way, its just that we don’t have much of a choice. To get that SAT score, that M.D. or PhD from that college, we go through a system that penalizes failure and has little value for creativity.

Now I wonder how we fix it…