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The day Americans won their independence from mannequins. And then proceeded to have the worst barbeque and fireworks show ever.

If my memory serves me correctly, and it rarely does these days (what am I even paying you for you stupid brain?!), graduation ceremonies for the younglings are currently in progress across the country. Which makes me wonder how well our future leaders and followers are being educated for the real world. Which in turn leads me to this segue to an excellent video from the annual creative idea conference, TED (Technology, Entertainment, and Design). In February of 2006, Sir Ken Robinson went on to explain how creativity is not necessarily nurtured in our educational systems but rather brushed aside in favor of conventional thinking. Needless to say, this strikes a chord with me as I’ve always been an ardent supporter of logic but in my old age I’ve come to realize that being overly analytical may deprive oneself of being freely creative. This English chappy “makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.” It’s a must see for all you creative types, as well as for anyone with a brain. Especially those new brains just graduating from high school. But not for me, my brain and I are still fighting.

Thanks to Denny “Cool Breeze” Devries for dropping the science.

Extra credit! Sir Ken’s definition of “creativity” so you don’t need to watch it over and over like I did:

Creativity-Process of having original ideas that have value, more often than not comes about through the interaction of different disciplinary ways of seeing things.