Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?

I've been subscribing to TED posts in Google Reader for quite a while now, but I always seem to miss the best stuff. Thanks to AKMA for drawing our attention to this today. The video below is of Sir Ken Robinson's talk at the 2006 TED conference. I've typed out a couple of the really salient parts of his discussion.

Salient = things i'm interested in. so what.

My contention is that all kids have tremendous talents, and we squander them, pretty ruthlessly... My contention is that creativity, now, is as important in education as literacy, and we shoudl treat it with the same status.
...Intelligence is interactive. The brain isn't divided into compartments. Creativity...more often than not comes about through the interaction of different disciplinary ways of seeing things.

For those of you that are savy with ipods and podcasting, there's a link on the TED site (linked in this post's title) to download the video of this to itunes. enjoy