Learning to Be Creative
by Ken Robinson
- My rating: Rated 4 out of 5
- Read: June 2012
- Published: 2001
- Pages: 326
- Category: Design and creativity
My review
Ken Robinson analyzes the reasons why most educational systems in the world suck and why it's so important to promote creativity. He does it in a way similar to his presentations: simple, clear, with many examples and with personal anecdotes. I really enjoyed reading this book.
However, I was disappointed at the same time.
The problems are wonderfully explained but not the solutions. I would have liked to read his ideas on how to improve the educational systems. He does give some hints and theory. He even put some examples of schools with different approaches. But they were to me too vague and I must say that I am skeptical to various ideas he describes as for example letting students build their own curricula.
I also missed his opinions on why there are countries where students have excellent performance like Finland, compared to others in the same continent.
Besides this, all in all an excellent and highly recommendable book.