Everybody has an interest in education

All children have talent and we squander them

Creativity is as important in education as literacy

little girl is drawing picture of God

teacher: "But, nobody knows what God looks like"

little girl: "They will in a minute"

Even if they don't know, they'll still have a go

Being wrong isn't the same thing as being creative

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. -Pablo Picasso

In adulthood

in national education systems

Mathematics & Languages

Humanities

Artis

Education systems came into being in the 19th century

To meet the needs of industrialism

Ideals

Suddenly, degrees aren't worth anything anymore

Academic inflation

Is diverse

Is dynamic

Is distinct

The process of having original ideas that have value

Often comes about through the interaction of different disciplinary ways of seeing things

One in which we start to reconstitute our conception of the richness of human capacity

Our education system has mined our minds in the way that we have strip mined the earth for a particular commodity

We have to rethink the fundamental principles on which we're educating our children