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Does our education system destroy creativity?

Ruth Tarrant

30th October 2016

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Many teachers will have read the work of Sir Ken Robinson on education and creativity; discussion of that topic has been in the news headlines again over the half term break, with a widely shared article from The Guardian doing the rounds of social media which examines the view that everyone is born creative, but that school crushes it out of most of us.

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Ruth Tarrant

Ruth has been Subject Lead in Economics at tutor2u for many years after a career of teaching Economics, Business, Politics and Maths in a range of secondary schools. She is a highly experienced A level Economics Examiner, and also teaches undergraduate Economics on a very part-time basis at the University of Oxford. Ruth is passionate about making economics fun, engaging and accessible.

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