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Out of Our Minds
- Learning to Be Creative
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
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Publisher's Summary
There is a paradox. As children, most of us think we are highly creative; as adults many of us think we are not. What changes as children grow up? Organizations across the globe are competing in a world that is changing faster than ever. They say they need people who can think creatively, who are flexible and quick to adapt. Too often they can't find them. Why not? In this provocative and inspiring book, Ken Robinson addresses three vital questions:
- Why is it essential to promote creativity? Business leaders, politicians and educators emphasize the vital importance of promoting creativity and innovation. Why does this matter so much?
- What is the problem? Why do so many people think they're not creative? Young children are buzzing with ideas. What happens as we grow up and go through school to make us think we are not creative?
- What can be done about it? What is creativity? What can companies, schools and organizations do to develop creativity and innovation in a deliberate and systematic way?
In this extensively revised and updated version of his best-selling classic, Ken Robinson offers a groundbreaking approach to understanding creativity in education and in business. He argues that people and organizations everywhere are dealing with problems that originate in schools and universities and that many people leave education with no idea at all of their real creative abilities. Out of Our Minds is a passionate and powerful call for radically different approaches to leadership, teaching and professional development to help us all to meet the extraordinary challenges of living and working in the 21st century.
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- Mehran
- 04-03-2018
Just amazing
I realized how important is this topic, but we don't know much about it.
I highly recommend this book to everyone!
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- Neryl
- 17-10-2015
Perspicacity itself.
Written with Robinson's incisive, analytical mind, issuing gems of thought provoking synthesis of much thinking and research in the field of education. Not only education however, but sociology, psychology, the arts and more.
It is a pity he hasn't read for this recording himself. The reader is droll, and fails to convey the gems of perspicacity with anywhere near the delivery demanded by Robinson's typically well written text. Nevertheless, I'm listening for a second time, and have bought the book to contain my underlinings and turned down corners as I read.
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- Michael H
- 03-05-2019
Strong start, weak middle, strong end
This book offers a deep look into so many of the problems of education today and how to fix them. I felt that the book is almost two books one on education then one that is about management consultancy.
Overall this is a book everyone in education should read, it will force everyone to ask what impact does the modern school system have on creativity and a love of learning.
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