How Schools Kill Creativity

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Sir Kenneth Robinson is an English author, speaker and international advisor on education in the arts to government, non-profits, education and arts bodies. He was Director of the Arts in Schools Project (1985–89), Professor of Arts Education at the University of Warwick (1989–2001), and was knighted in 2003 for services to art. He is author ofFinding Your Element,Out of Our Minds, andCreative Schools.

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