TED

I greatly enjoyed this conversation and the chance to talk about “that talk” 12 years on and what has and hasn’t changed! Many thanks for all you do at TED.

21st Century Wire says…
This is one of the better, more genuine ‘TED’ talks we’ve seen this year.

A lot of people know about my work through my talks at the TED conference, and especially the first one, in 2006, ‘Do Schools Kill Creativity?’ At 41 million views and counting it is still the most viewed talk in TED’s history.  A couple of years ago, I was at a university in the mid-West of America to give a speech to students. Over lunch, one of the faculty said, “You’ve been at this a long time, haven’t you?” “What’s that?” I asked. “Trying to transform education,” he said.

Original thinking is “the best way to improve the world around us.”
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Whether we’re searching for food or love, we’re all hunters in some form – but it’s how we choose to fulfil that instinct that determines our fate and the lives of those around us, says Caspar Walsh who believes that by taking a life he saved his own

I really enjoyed recording this interview for the recent TED Radio Hour on NPR on creativity. I’m particularly delighted that Dame Gillian Lynn is in the piece too retelling with me the story of her discovery as a child that she wasn’t ‘sick’, she was a dancer.
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The full program also features  interviews with Sting, Elizabeth Gilbert and Charles Limb.

Enjoyed this interview with Sarah Montague at BBC Radio Four part of the new series on The Educators.
I even got to revisit my old elementary school in Liverpool.
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