TED: School's kill creativity

TED: Ideas worth spreading.
I've decided to talk about this speech made by Sir Ken Robinson, which I found on the TED website.
I've chosen this video because a number of important points were raised in this speech, a few of which I strongly agree with.
Sir Robinson begins his speech by talking about ‘Human creativity’. He raises the point in his speech that schools ‘kill’ rather than encourage creativity. It was also made clear that he strongly believes creativity is as important in Education as literacy or maths is, therefore should be treated with the same status. I completely agree with this. Children seem to believe the most important subjects in school are English or Maths or Science. What about other subjects’ children are good at? Like dancing, football, or playing the violin. Surely these things should be appreciated too. By not valuing a child’s creativity, surely we are giving the impression that their creativity is worthless.
Another point that Sir Robinson brought up is that the purpose of education seems to be to produce professors. Children who dream of being dancers, or actors or astronauts are steered away from those dreams as their told they’ll ‘never get a job in that field’. Sir Robinson points out that having these dreams is ‘the gift of human imagination’ and we should be building on these dreams rather than tearing them down.
Surely by tearing them down makes the child have doubt in themselves. I believe a child should never be told that they ‘can’t’ do something. They should be encouraged that they can do anything they set their heart on.
I completely agree that English, Maths and Science are important subjects as at the moment they build our national curriculum and are seen as ‘core subjects’. These are the subjects that children need to have good grades in to get into colleges or universities.
However I completely agree a child’s talent should never go unseen, as it what makes that person them, and by encouraging them and helping them grow we help them reach their full potential and give them every opportunity to reach their dream.