When Sir Ken Robinson delivered his now-iconic TED Talk in 2006, proclaiming that “schools kill creativity,” he struck a chord that continues to reverberate through education systems worldwide. Robinson’s argument that our schools systematically squash imagination in favor of conformity and compliance sparked a movement for more creative, learner-centered approaches. Yet, less than two decades later, a new fear is echoing through these same halls: that artificial intelligence will now be the force that finally kills critical thinking in schools. How did we get from blaming the system to blaming the tool?
In much of the public debate, creativity and critical thinking are treated as either interchangeable or competing priorities, when in fact, both are essential to meaningful education and innovation. Yet, the same structures that kill creativity (e.g., expressed as imagination, originality, and divergent thinking) also discourage critical thinking (questioning, reasoning, and independent judgment). When students are rewarded for reproducing accepted answers rather than generating new ones or interrogating the old, neither skill is meaningfully developed.

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