If You Have Twenty Minutes to Spare….
Take the time to view this TED Talk video by Sir Ken Robinson. He takes a humorous, yet pointed, look at what he believes to be the crux of the problem with the world’s public education systems. Founded less than 2oo years ago as a response to the Industrial Revolution, public school systems were a crisis managment method for educating the children of workers to grow up, replace their parents and become workers themselves. He points out that as the system has progressed and developed, it has become about fostering less and less creativity and limiting the parts of the child where growth is fostered. This cannot continue. I’ll let him tell you why.
Sir Ken Robinson on “Do Schools Kill Creativity?”
Creativity is just as important to education as literacy and we should treat it as such.
~Sir Ken Robinson~
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June 5th, 2008 @ 10:20 pm
I saw this on another website. I think that he has some very interesting ideas and he makes some very good points. I do disagree with some of it but just opening the discussion is worth something.
And hey there Cat, how the heck are you? How did you find my blog? You’re welcome there anytime, love to see you and I love to see how you’re doing here.
Come back and see me sometime. I’ll be back.