--- title: TED Talk Legend Sir Ken Robinson Talks To TIME description: Sir Ken Robinson's TED Talks have been watched by more people than any other speaker in the conference's history. Online, his three talks combined have... canonical: https://time.com/archive/7132021/ted-talk-legend-sir-ken-robinson-talks-to-time/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2013-05-30T14:27:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-16T09:16:36.337Z article:section: Ideas og:title: TED Talk Legend Sir Ken Robinson Talks To TIME og:description: Sir Ken Robinson's TED Talks have been watched by more people than any other speaker in the conference's history. Online, his three talks combined have... og:url: https://time.com/archive/7132021/ted-talk-legend-sir-ken-robinson-talks-to-time/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: TED Talk Legend Sir Ken Robinson Talks To TIME twitter:description: Sir Ken Robinson's TED Talks have been watched by more people than any other speaker in the conference's history. Online, his three talks combined have... twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Ideas](/section/ideas/) # TED Talk Legend Sir Ken Robinson Talks To TIME by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) May 30, 2013 2:27 PM UTC by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) May 30, 2013 2:27 PM UTC Sir Ken Robinson’s TED Talks have been watched by more people than any other speaker in the conference’s history. Online, his three talks combined have gotten over 21 million views, but Robinson estimates that when you include event presentations, his 2006 “Schools Kill Creativity” [talk](http://www.ted.com/talks/ken%5Frobinson%5Fsays%5Fschools%5Fkill%5Fcreativity.html) has been watched by over 300 million people. No wonder he’s referred to “the sneezing baby panda of the TED ecosystem” on their website. The educator and author sat down with TIME to discuss his new book _Finding Your Element,_ which encourages individuals to seek out their passion and make sure it’s part of everyday life. **(MORE**: [Ken Robinson: What Graduation Speeches Should Say But Don’t](http://ideas.time.com/2013/05/21/what-graduation-speeches-should-really-say/?iid=op-main-belt)) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/7132021/ted-talk-legend-sir-ken-robinson-talks-to-time/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/7132021/ted-talk-legend-sir-ken-robinson-talks-to-time/"},"headline":"TED Talk Legend Sir Ken Robinson Talks To TIME","datePublished":"2013-05-30T14:27:56.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-16T09:16:36.337Z","description":"Sir Ken Robinson's TED Talks have been watched by more people than any other speaker in the conference's history. Online, his three talks combined have...","url":"https://time.com/archive/7132021/ted-talk-legend-sir-ken-robinson-talks-to-time/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/7132021/ted-talk-legend-sir-ken-robinson-talks-to-time/","name":"TED Talk Legend Sir Ken Robinson Talks To TIME"}}]}] ```