Sir Ken Robinson discusses how our modern educational system can kill creativity. Most children are educated in the same way they have been for the past 100 years. Usually students sit in a class and listen to a lecture by the teacher and then are expected to prove that they learned what they were supposed to by answering a set of multiple choice questions.

Instead of learning to optimize their individual gifts, school typically makes kids into generalists who are good at everything, but not great at anything. Robinson also points out that students are taught to not take risk because they are afraid to make mistakes.