Why show Sir Ken Robinson's video in a math class?

Sir Ken Robinson's video, 'do schools kill creativity?' was a great video to show in a math class of future educators. First of all he was very humorous while he was talking about this matter and I think it is important to keep humour in things because it keeps the viewers attention throughout. As future teachers this can be interpreted as keeping math fun and creative, because when a teacher loses touch of her fun side and becomes entirely serious it is difficult for students to enjoy math in the same way. The part where he talks about his son being in the nativity scene was particularly intriguing to me because I could relate to his conclusion about the event. The boy did not say the correct line, but instead said 'Frank sent this', his conclusion was that children will take a chance, even if they don't know, they will try. He says that he does not believe that being wrong and being creative is the same thing but that children are not afraid of being wrong and that if you are not prepared to be wrong then you will never come up with anything original. This makes perfect sense as it relates to children learning math because we, as teachers, must encourage students to try and attempt a problem, even if they are wrong, instead of discourage. I had a teacher in Elementary school who made me feel stupid for trying because my method for solving the problem was not correct. Children need guidance and encouragement, discouraging children from trying only destroys their confidence and makes them feel like trying something is a waste of time because their answer might be wrong. Thus, children grow into adults who are frightened of being wrong and I believe we learn from our mistakes even more than we learn from our accomplishments because it makes us go back to where we started, figure out what went wrong the first time and fix it.

I do think that schools are beginning to kill children's creative spirit because teachers look for that one answer to a question or that one correct response to an assignment but they should take more time to analyze and think about what made the child think about the assignment in that way? If the  reasoning is still unclear, the teacher should sit with the student and ask questions about their piece. As teachers we expect students to ask questions when they do not understand a given reading or problem or whatever it may be, but as educators I think it is important for us to ask questions and look deeper into our students work, all children have creativity and we should encourage students to show it in their work.