Sir Ken Robison challenges Education in his 2009 book The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything (Penguin Books)
Transcript
Today's morsel comes from Sir Ken Robinson's 2009 book The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything.
Here are some quotes from that text:
"All school children start their careers with sparkling imagination, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think."
"Our education systems increasingly encourage teachers to teach students in a uniform fashion. These approaches to education are stifling some of the most important capacities that young people now need to make their way in the increasingly demanding world of the twenty-first century. "
"Sometimes being wrong is just being wrong. What is true is, if you are not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original."
"It is very easy to be typed early in your career. When this happens, it becomes exceedingly difficult to make use of your other, and perhaps truer, talents."
And here are two questions:
Can we all be creative?
How do we learn, or perhaps unlearn, creativity?
Further…
Sir Ken Robinson (2015). “Bring on the learning revolution!” TED Talk - In this poignant, funny follow-up to his fabled 2006 talk, Sir Ken Robinson makes the case for a radical shift from standardized schools to personalized learning — creating conditions where kids' natural talents can flourish.
Sir Ken Robinson’s 2006 TED Talk in which he first explained how schools kill creativity when society needs to foster creativity if people are to thrive.
