Kirsty Young's castaway is the educationalist Sir Ken Robinson.
Creativity - how to nurture it, develop it and marshal its power - is his preoccupation. He believes that too many people have no sense of their true talents and passions, and his internationally renowned talks to teachers, business and government leaders argue that - contrary to popular myth - creativity and innovation can be developed in a deliberate and systematic way. What we need, he thinks, is a learning revolution.
His own erudition
began in a crowded house on Merseyside in the fifties, full of visitors,
noise and laughter. His front door was just a hundred yards from
Everton football club, but his boyhood dreams of playing for The Blues
ended when he contracted polio.
The first of
his six siblings to pass the 11-plus and win a scholarship to one of
Liverpool's best schools, his education would fundamentally shape the
rest of his life. He says "If a teacher hadn't seen something in me that
I hadn't seen in myself, my life might have gone in a very different
direction."
Listen to the programme:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03g8d6d
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