Educators mourn the loss of Sir Ken Robinson

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 He argued for radical reform to the national approach to education, saying outdated practices hindered the development of creativity and that all subjects – academic and non-academic – should be viewed as equally important.