"The whole system was invented to meet the needs of industrialism. So the hierarchy is based on two ideas: Number one that the most useful subjects for work are at the top. So you were probably steered benignly away when you were a kid from things you liked on the ground you would never get a job doing that...And the second is academic ability, which has really come to dominate our view of intelligence because the universities designed the system in their image. If you think of it the whole system of education around the world is a protracted process of university entrance. The consequence is that many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they're not because the thing they're good at at school wasn't valued or was actually stigmatized."
"It's wonderfully interactive. The brain isn't divided into compartments. Creativity, which I define as having original ideas which have value, more often than not comes about as the interaction of different disciplinary ways of seeing things."
-Ken Robinson
http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html
