Divergent Thinking

An extract from Sir Ken Robinson's talk at the RSA.

• Category

  Education

[Ryan Kulas]

I was excited by this video and embarassed by the other comments. I was shocked that people are fighting these statistics with excuses like " adults don't have time to make pointless lists" and " adults have experienced paper clips, learned limitations and therefore the test is useless for them". don't you see this is the point he is making? While the test seems trivial, the results are not. Creativity and ingenuity should be valued and supported more instead of conforming to society's norms.

[viktorivich]

This guy's a genius.

[FlatEarthHypothesis]

Jerry Springer in another universe...

[Johnny John]

stepping outside of the box and looking at the issue or problem from all angles.

[BlackSabotage100]

95% of statistics are made up on the spot.

[Acelyn Fink]

I think that the percentage has decreased as the age increases because when people go to school they are taught to think a certain way, so the percentage is higher in kindergarteners because they haven't learned to think a certain way yet. 

[jastopher]

(cont.)

Kids learn in spite of the educators that encounter not because of them; as anyone who has experience teaching gifted children knows.

[jastopher]

Although Sir Ken seems like a likable enough chap, I must point a paradox of educational reform that applies to him and many others of his ilk, and that it is that he is a product of the system he wishes to reform. This raises the question that if the traditional methods are so bad, how can they they produce reformers?

I think this is a serious objection to educational reform and can be applied all through history to Plato, Rousseau, Dewey etc.

In reality, what matters is what happens at home