Ken Robinson (educationalist)

Sir Ken Robinson (1950-2020) was a British author, speaker and international advisor on arts education to governments, non-profits and education bodies. Born in Liverpool, he directed the Arts in Schools Project in England and Wales from 1985, whose work influenced the National Curriculum for England, and was professor of arts education at the University of Warwick from 1989 to 2001. He led the 1998 commission whose report All Our Futures: Creativity, Culture and Education was widely read, and was knighted in 2003. He argued for an education that fosters diversity, curiosity and creativity and relies less on standardised testing, and his TED talk on whether schools kill creativity became the most watched in the series.