If a man speaks his mind in a forest, is he still wrong?

Nobody has a clue what the world will look like in five years. Yet, we are educating children to be doing what? Children have extraordinary capacities for innovation. Are we encouraging that? Or are we squandering their talents?

What importance do we attach to creativity? "If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original." "We are educating people out of their creative capacities."

"Kids will take a chance. If they don't know, they'll have a go!" "They're not frightened of being wrong." By the time they become adults, they are frightened of being wrong. All children are born artists. The problem is to remain an artist as we grow up.

The whole world is engulfed in a revolution. Intelligence is diverse, dynamic, and distinct. How do people discover their talent? Why are women better at multi-tasking?

Have you read Ken Robinson's book entitled Epiphany? Sounds like a good one. Update: I looked at our local library and did not find it. However, I found Finding your element : how to discover your talents and passions and transform your life published in 2013.

Got a fidgety child? Send her to a dance school, or put her on medication for ADHD and tell her to calm down?

Are we seeing our creative capacities for the richness they are? Are we seeing our children for the hope that they are? Our job is to help our children make something of the future!