Our daughter transferred to a traditional high school to a creative arts magnet school and the amazing thing was how much better the overall academics were. I believe it is because the kids were so thrilled to be there they saw a purpose. Reading was suddenly connected to their scripts and math was suddenly a challenge... not just another roadblock in life.
This is education redefined. Sir Ken Robinson is amazingly convincing about this issue of creativity in education. I have been a teacher for over 22 years now but I had never seen education in the way it is brought.
2021, recently graduated from a private university with the promise of success but currently unemployed.. I realized that my college education really wasn't about landing a job. The experience just allowed me to think critically and mature in my view of society
Create Education Systems that are meant to celebrate and cultivate our children to produce a harvest of ideas and possibilities. - Sir Ken Robinson. An impactful statement that encapsulates Robinson's life's work - education reform that centers around the creative cultivation of multiple types of intelligence.
This man is so insightful. I work in education in Japan where it is more or less a utilitarian system based on rote memorization and test scores; the results of which can more or less determine the course of the rest of your life. I am told things are slowly changing which is nice to here. But I often wonder what the best system of education would look like? It seems things need to change but how would that effectively come about? How can we nurture students individuality and creativity, inspire curiosity and original thinking in them without ignoring the rigors of adult life and the "hard" skills it often requires? Then there is the problem of being required to make all the important decisions regarding the trajectory of one's life before one even knows what the world is really like. On the other end there is the crushing fear of not being able to keep up in an ever more competitive world with its obsessive race to the bottom dollar and the rise of automation. I think, as a whole, humanity is more than capable of fixing these problems but it will require as much a change in how we see the world as it will a change in policy. I'm glad to see someone as influential, well spoken, and compassionate as Sir Ken Robinson raising these ideas in people's minds. Thank you for the upload.
I realize this is an old post but, I’m part of a danish think-tank where we have tried to design the system that can do the things Ken Robinson talks about. We concentrate on the nuts and bolts of the system. The mechanisms that would have to be put in. The main problem is that nobody spends time looking at the system itself. In Denmark everyone is concentrating on what the teachers should be teaching. This means that change amounts to telling the teachers that they should differentiate instructions, teach the students to be creative, innovative individuals who are good at cooperation. But they have to do it in a system which is designed for the opposite of all these things. It all boils down to politicians’ micromanaging areas they have no knowledge about or any interest in gaining knowledge in.
I like the metaphor of the theater... It brings us to really realize what the basics really are. So often we are caught up with all the things don't really matter... Great talk!
I think he could simplify the model of education further by removing a teacher. A philosopher does not even need a book. Life is its own mystery and inspiration.
Agree! Sir Ken always has great talks, that really makes one think. so true about everyone being good at different things. It was a friend who said to me that people often learn something best when its something they can apply to their personal interests. Like with mathematics for example. You get better at it with practice and application but that doesn't mean you have to enjoy doing it. But if its applied to something else that really interests you, you feel more motivation to learn it.
Like Sir Ken Robinson said. What we need is a process of helping people to engage with the world around them. I think we need to make our interaction with the world more gameful. Games are always engaging and I believe they can change the world.
My son went to an International School in Spain that not only valued the Arts but underpinned its educational philosophy on them, along with the other IB subjects. What a phenomenally well rounded & academically successful school it was too. You couldn't wish to meet more personable, self-assured, creative young people. They radiated the essence of human creativity and could appreciate the need for the balance in their lives for maths, language, science, economics, humanities & each other.
Love listening to Mr Robinson's wisdom and his witty and entertaining presentation. He might be surprised to learn that health markers he mentions, such as cholesterol levels, are actually set in a pretty random way by drug companies who want the net set fine enough to catch plenty of customers.
You're so very right. I actually found what I wanted to do with my life by accident. In my country and state the last two years of public education is fairly open and you're able to choose, for the most part, what classes you want to do. I chose not to do maths because I despised it and was sick of it after 11 years of continuously doing it. Instead I picked up photography as a way to fill in for maths and for an easy ride. I discovered, after 11 years , I loved photography and was good at it!
Strip it bare, start with an empty room, a teacher and some children. Then see what happens. I recently asked students at one of my lectures what they would do with 15 children in an empty room with a circle drawn on the floor. SILENCE! When in Romania I had 36 children in an empty room in a terrible mess. No resources, awful conditions. Great ti hear Sir Ken. We just don't hear enough of the same from the goons responsible for implementing an education programme.
My father was German and I, born in the US, could not learn German either. After I finished my PhD in Physiology my father kept asking me if I was ever going to get a 'real job'.
I can certainly identify with Sir Robinson. I studied Art and Spanish in school -- Spanish because my dad made me take it. I only wanted to be an artist. I ended up in education in order to have a better, steady pay check. Oh, the irony!
To further back this idea look up "Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action " on TED Talks. He describes the difference between motivation from without, and motivation from within. I'm fairly sure Sir K. Robinson would agree.
It would be good to know what he thinks about affirmative action programs in america. i know he has published many books and maybe i ought to read them.
He has written extensively about the argument. These presentations are the summaries of those arguments. Your failure to see that does not mean they aren't arguments. It means you can't identify one.
I wonder whether Sir Ken Robinson will support the massive learning online courses. It seems the development of online courses is further away from the personal curriculum that he advocates.
There are abstract thinkers and visual acustic thinkers, its brain design by nature alpha waves or not. we must make sure that in politics compatibel brains meet.
Regarding your views of the ecological system here on this earth. if we as humans can live where ever we choose and allow the government less control in our lives regarding how we live or where we should and live off the earth and use our created efforts as people, we can survive anywhere as a group, but government has only allow people to lived and survive base on the those few who rule the government which is not a government of the people but certain entities. We can survive any where on earth, because the earth was create for us to live here and no where else. That's my take on the subject
what do you think? This is just an idea, but i think a very large group of very smart people like Sir Ken Robinson should all get together and answer all these "How do we do this?" questions. Then they should create a brand new form of education that works. Then i think they should give it away for free on the internet. if that last step confuses you then please watch this video: RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us Also watch the RSA Animate ken robinson video.
I think you're targeting the wrong audience, friend. I'm not saying that absolutely no one who enjoys nigahiga would be interested in these matters, but that you're trying to catch small fish with a net for big fishes.
Most of the people don't give a crap about this. They deserve a punishment for that. In their mind, it's videos of people falling over and car accidents that they find the most interesting, not these kinds of videos.
