Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity.

Kids will take a chance. And if they don’t know, they’ll have a go. Am I right? They’re not frightened of being wrong. Now, I don’t mean to say that being wrong is the same as being creative, but what we do know is — if you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original… if you’re not prepared to be wrong. And by the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity: they have become frightened of being wrong.

Here’s another golden tidbit:

Gillian Lynne… She’s been responsible for some of the most successful musical theatre productions in history, she’s given pleasure to millions, and she’s a multi-millionaire. Somebody else might have put her on medication and told her to calm down.