RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms

This animate was adapted from a talk given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA's Benjamin Franklin award.
For more information on Sir Ken's work visit: http://www.sirkenrobinson.com

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[universalsailor]

My school tried to teach us about great art when we were 7 and 8 - like trying to teach a dog to enjoy Beethoven. Unlike the dog, I did get interested in art when I was in my 20's when I could actually get my head atround it.

[Ja14111948]

don't forget the laziness of teachers.

[kingcocomango]

If you think he was not being elegant, then I presume you did not fully comprehend what was going on.

[vesperhesperus]

how do you have a discussion about changing education without race or class? "adhd is (maybe) a myth", are you fucking kidding me? that's hardly the worst thing happening even if it were true! school-to-prison pipeline, anyone? the absurdly high drop out (PUSHED out) rates? the drawings are nice but the lecture's fatuous. the most common key to success is privileged socioeconomic status! so yes, his works apply to a select few, but what about the swathes of kids not even getting that much?

[23456Mr1]

Speculating about the geniuses of kindergarteners was not the point. The point is that kindergarteners have more potential for creativity, Schooling does make an adult know more but makes them passive.

[23456Mr1]

Public education is inefficient anyway, especially in an era where the Internet can provide more information than low-paid teachers can ever do.

[best496]

Why do we have to take English 4 times in high school to graduate? I think we should only have to take English two times and take mathematics and science four times each. I speak English, I learned it when I was born so why should I have to take it so much in high school?

[universalsailor]

Just what we need, another buzz word ... You limit kids by not making them fluent in the three Rs. Teach a child to read and express him/herself with good grammar, and make him/her numerate. There's your grounding for everything else. Perhaps the biggest need today is to teach everyone to take responsibility for their own shortcomings and then remedy them.There's way too much "it's not my fault" thinking doing the rounds.

[drnrqsldch]

Is not about teaching art… is the way you teach stuff, or "limitate" the minds of the children.

[Eoghanlebar]

He aint WRONG, but he doesn't really have anything useful to say. Siegfrieg Engelmann has taken education to the level of a SCIENCE with Direct Instruction (DI), and hardly anyone knows or cares. Michel Thomas's language lessons use the same principles of design as DI to make em work 100 times more efficiently than any other language learning program out there. Engelmann and Michel Thomas both have (had) critical marketing failures, but if you want to fix education, LOOK TO THEM!

[SDS4BO]

The question is not how do we fit children into a future economy, the question is, when will we provide them examples of frugality, thriftiness, and prudence, right now?

Don't worry about the children when your own government is spending itself into the toilet and leaving the burdens to the children. Worry about how you will find some repsonsible adults to take the reins back from the immature jokers in our country's administration.