Education system must take blame for stifling innovation

A teacher with her pupils at a Nairobi school. Our education system must prepare our young ones for a future that we cannot grasp, bringing out their creativity as much as developing their literacy. FILE

I recently watched one of Sir Kenneth Robinson’s classic TED talks, Do Schools Kill Creativity? And it wasn’t for the first time. For it contains the kind of messages we need to hear repeatedly.

No wonder they’ve been downloaded over 13 million times. I urge you to watch them too, but meanwhile let me tell you something about what he said, together with some reflections on his views for Kenya.

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