How schools kill creativity video review

http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity


Ken Robinson is very amusing, indeed. But does he make sense?
It's a big leap from "For some kids our schools don't work well" to "schools kill creativity."
It's a big leap from "Teaching critical thinking" (at school) to (at school) "Mistakes are the worst thing you can make."
If schools make us grow out of creativity, where is the evidence of creativity in previous ages (when we did not have our school system)? And where did the recent explosion of technology come from, which requires quite a lot of original ideas that have value?
If schools killed creativity, where did "the extraordinary evidence of human creativity at the conference" come from? Did none of the participants attend school? Surely not.
Then he has the story about someone educated in the Thirties. Amazing. So in the middle of the Great Depression the schools did not pay enough attention to the individual needs of children and somehow this proves that 70 years later schools kill creativity? Has he been in any schools recently?
In my own education I did not get too much preparation for working in the industry but rather too little of it. In the industry people work often in multi-disciplinary teams and there was little preparation for this at school. Critical thinking, constructive and concise communication, focus, perseverance, reflection, and work-life balance are all important, next to creativity. I do not think we lack ideas. I think we lack the ability to recognize them, digest them, agree on them, and use them to the advantage of humanity.