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Sir Ken Robinson: Creativity & Education

There were a lot of great speakers at this year's TED Conference but Sir Ken Robinson's talk rocked the crowd. His gifts as a storyteller underscored powerful points about innovation and education.

You can watch the speech online or download it as a video podcast.

I can't teach you anything because you haven't read anything

I become more and more convinced that leaders should read less about their field or industry and more in other fields. Specifically, they should read classics. This point was reinforced in an article about Colin Forbes, one of the founders of Pentagram.

One of his teachers was a wood engraver named John Farleigh, who said to him one day, "Colin, I can't teach you anything because you haven't read anything."

Why (and how) we should teach literature to business students

Dr. Vigen Guroian has concluded that his college is “complicit in producing so-called educated people who are deaf to wisdom, blind to beauty, and incapable of mounting an argument for goodness and truth against evil and falsehood.” In response, he decided this spring to try an experiment with a class of business undergrads, helping them to make the distinction between a truly liberating education and mere training for work, showing them how literature can help make them—and us—more fully human. His story can be found in the link below.

Link: Implications: An Online Journal from the Trinity Forum.