世界的教育部長，TED最激勵人心的講師
肯‧羅賓森 點燃熱情之作

主題：教育扼殺了創意
簡介：世界的教育部長‧全球百大演說家 肯．羅賓森爵士(Sir Ken Robinson)最動人的演講。利用精彩的真實案例來分析教育制度，提醒讀者教育應該培養而非扼殺學生的創意。

上市二年後，《讓天賦自由》突破了十萬本，在經濟前景混沌的當下，一本書談論天賦的書能獲得這麼大的迴響，當然是作者肯‧羅賓森打中了許多人對自己所作所學，能否符合個人專長的迷惘。

社會就像一個交響樂團，每個人都有一種擅長的樂器，如果天生愛打鼓的人，指揮告訴他現在樂團最缺的是彈鋼琴的人，不缺打鼓的人，而彈鋼琴的地位是最顯而易見的，他因此放棄打鼓、改彈鋼琴，整個交響樂團奏出的曲調會如何呢？
如果大家都很努力的話，當然不至於走音，只是欠缺了生命力、欠缺了感動人的爆發力。
如果愛打鼓的人站對了位置，彈鋼琴的人也選對了位置，那麼一切水到渠成，就會造就一首渾然天成的樂章。

★本書中文版由「天下遠見」出版。

A breakthrough book about talent, passion, and achievement from one of the world's leading thinkers on creativity and self-fulfillment.

The Element is the point at which natural talent meets personal passion. When people arrive at the Element, they feel most themselves and most inspired and achieve at their highest levels. With a wry sense of humor, Ken Robinson looks at the conditions that enable us to find ourselves in the Element and those that stifle that possibility. Drawing on the stories of a wide range of people, including Paul McCartney, Matt Groening, Richard Branson, Arianna Huffington, and Bart Conner, he shows that age and occupation are no barrier and that this is the essential strategy for transforming education, business, and communities in the twenty-first century.