Summary:
Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we're educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence.
Key Points:
- all kids have talents and we squander them
- creativity is as important as literacy
- children are not afraid to be wrong, adults are
- if you are afraid to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original
- eduction hierarchy world wide puts math & sciences at the top, followed by language and then arts at the bottom
- public eduction puts the value on the top of the hierarchy, not what a child is good at or loves
- degrees are worth less and less because more and more people have them, standards are raising - once a BA was all that was needed, now it's a MBA or PhD (academic inflation)
Loved this one. No one is funnier than the British and his message was great. Sir Robinson as an academic himself, recognizes that is not where the value lies for everyone and public eduction has a narrow focus of what is valuable.
Will look up his other talks, just because I enjoyed this one so much.
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