One of my favorite talk at TED in recent years was Sir. Ken Robinson’s talk during TED 2006 on how our education system is many times failing to equip children with the tools they need for creativity.

This was particularly relevant to me since I was one of those children who was most often getting sent to the principals office. After years of “Could do great if he applied himself” I left school when I was 15 and didn’t return until I was 17. By the time I matured a bit I was able to focus myself and did fairly well until I left high school just shy of graduating to start my first company.

The original TED talk became quite a phenomena online and is still one of the most popular TED talks I hear people talk about.

Here is the original talk from TED 2006 by Sir. Ken Robinson.

At TED last year I had the opportunity to speak with Ken and ask him about his work, the affect of his TED talks video popularity and some of the work he is doing to help improve the education system. Here is the video. (The video quality is a bit poor due to a lousy camera I’ve since gotten rid of)

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On Fri 29 Feb 2008.