Some of you may not be as addicted to TED talks as I am — 
I go on TED benders, week-long binges, 
carrying my laptop around the house,
hushing everyone. 

So. Now that that’s out of the way.
If that’s not you, perhaps you haven’t seen this one, a favorite of mine. 
Give it a look. 
For one thing, it’s funny.
And poignant.
My favorite combination.

But it’s also bold and built on statements like this one:

"Creativity now is as important in education as literacy."

And then it goes on to make them true.

Y’know, as writers we sort of have an academically-legitimate art (as opposed to drawing, say, or god forbid, modern dance or some such.) And still, most of us have stories about not quite fitting the mold. About having to tamp down or cut away our work and ourselves so that we’d be more, um, acceptable. But acceptable, folks, is overrated. There are so many other things I’d rather be. And I’d rather our children be…