In this humorous and inspiring twenty minute talk given during the 2006 TEDTalks in Monterey, California, Sir Ken Robinson explores how he believes creativity has been undermined in the worldwide education system. Sir Ken speaks of how a modern education produces one type of person and the creativity of thought and exploration is stifled out of life. Thomas Berry explores a similar theme in his book The Great Work, suggesting that university education is geared to keep our current world system running.

Why include this talk in an exploration of Transitions and Thresholds? I would suggest that such an approach starts seeing the world through blinkered eyes and in doing so fails to allow us to recognise the “calls” of change that occur through life. This in turn prevents us from heeding their call and so moving on with a sense of equilibrium and balance in life. Passages in life are stifled in the pursuit of progress. We as individuals suffer and the world takes the consequences of our pain.

Enjoy the words of this wonderful speaker.