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Educators mourn the loss of Sir Ken Robinson

Liz Hill
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Teacher, author and government adviser Sir Ken Robinson, whose 2006 TED talk championing creativity in schools became the most viewed TED talk of all time, has died after a short battle with cancer. As professor of arts education at the University of Warwick his leadership of a national commission on creativity, education and the economy for the UK government led the publication of his seminal report, ‘All Our Futures: creativity, culture and education’. He argued for radical reform to the national approach to education, saying outdated practices hindered the development of creativity and that all subjects – academic and non-academic – should be viewed as equally important.