Teachers will love this video. It will make you laugh. And this is my testament to the value of considering learning styles in teaching: I was a kid who really benefited from my acting classes because I could move around while learning. When you connect with a student's learning style cross-curricullarly (for example: using the student's interest to motivate them to learn math when they really love music) you give them motivation for struggling with the areas they might try to avoid. They also have to feel safe in making mistakes.

One point I loved in Sir Ken Robinson's case for creativity is that he emphasizes  the importance of making mistakes, and thus for creating an environment where it is safe to make mistakes (others in this forum have also stressed this importance, so I want to give them credit as well). I don't think that we should underestimate this point. In my spare time I often do community theater, and while I was in secondary and undergraduate programs drama helped me to hang on to my concept of self so that I could stick with the other subjects that weren't my favorite.  Drama classes pretty much saved me.

Then, while I was in college (this was in the 1990s) I had an acting teacher say to me that you have to be really bad at acting before you can be really good. This concept blew my mind, so much so that I kept thinking about it for years to come. At first I didn't get it. Why would you ever want to be bad at something? Now I understand that what she was saying is that you don't have to actually be "bad" at something, but you have to be WILLING to risk taking a mis-step (a mistake) and having your peers see your choices as bad. This is the way that anything truly new, original and creative is discovered, which is one point that Sir Kenneth Robinson was making in the video.

Robinson, K. (Feb., 2006). How schools kill creativity. (Feb., 2006). http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity?language=en. Retrieved on 02/06/2015