What Ken Robinson has said about Do Schools Kill Creativity?

2 quotes · 1 episode · Aug 14, 2026

Ken Robinson has been quoted on Do Schools Kill Creativity? 2 times in 1 episode of TED Radio Hour, most recently on August 14, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

  • Ken Robinson argued that creativity is as important in education as literacy and should be treated with equal status.

    “My contention is that creativity now is as important in education as literacy. And we should treat it with the same status”

    TED Radio Hour: The price of creativity (Aug 14, 2026) · Listen from 35:16

  • Ken Robinson argued that being unwilling to be wrong prevents originality, and that most adults lose this willingness.

    “if you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original”

    TED Radio Hour: The price of creativity (Aug 14, 2026) · Listen from 36:27

Episodes

  • The price of creativity

    TED Radio Hour · Aug 14, 2026 · 50 min

    Manoush Zomorodi talks with Kickstarter co-founder Yancey Strickler about the history of creativity, the creator economy, and his proposed artist corporation (A Corp).