Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish — and how current education culture works against them. In a funny, stirring talk he tells us how to get out of the educational “death valley” we now face, and how to nurture our youngest generations with a climate of possibility.
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When our older son quit school to be home schooled, he said, "Excellent. Now I can start learning." Then when we allowed our younger son to be homeschooled, it took the high school six weeks before they realized he was missing , and when they rang me to find out why he wasn't going to school, they mixed him up with another child. The boys then had control over what and how they approached their own learning, and started to learn so much more.
R.I.P 👑
Brilliant!
10:00 common currency of being a human being
I would have loved to see this guy teach at a predominately black high school in America to see whether his ideas work in literally the worst case scenario. Unfortunately, we will never know.
Gracias por el aporte
Thank you.
We never replaced the learning of life schools that occurred in the home before kids were given school as a full time occupation.
WOW….. What a video!!
Absolutely mind blowing, never seen anything like this, and probably never will….. Content to delivery all to the point….
After seeing this video if our education system is still sleeping, then they are dead already…….
This video is an ignition to change, a revolution, is a CPR, a wakeup call to our education systems, our policy makers and our schools and universities…..
Education in Hong Kong sucks
I'm 42 and I went back to university to learn everything that "traditional" education couldn't teach me 20 years ago.
People who are immovable people who are movable and those who move
18:26 3 sorts of people: immovable, movable, people who move ❤ people who make things happen and if we encourage more people then that's a movement ⚡ and if the MVMT is strong 💪 enough then that's the best kind of revolution 🙌💯 and that's what we need! 🔥
To be this intelligent…
It is one unchallenged premise after another. Amusing but his assumptions and takeaways are questionable. It is such an unexamined assumption: education is failing us. While of course education is imperfect and must continue to evolve, evidence regarding education in general suggests otherwise. Even if it goes against the 'common sense'. Standardized I.Q. tests tell it all. Psychometrists have been updating what is an average intelligence IQ, raising it over the decades. According to the very well-documented research of James Flynn I.Q. scores have risen by nearly 30% over the last century. This means that your (great) great-grandparents if they were average intelligence when back then would be identified as mentally challenged. Or to flip that, if you were around a hundred years ago you would almost certainly be considered highly intelligent… Also, comparing Finland and the United States is not helpful, like doing so with apples and oranges. The United States has traditionally been a country of immigrants and continues to take in more people year after year. This means that Finland educators do not need to overcome the hurdle of language, culture, and poverty that produce some initial slowdown and lower test scores for students in the United States. The United States is still the great producer globally of innovation, culturally and tech-wise. K Robinson is fun and charming and it's hard to not agree with him with this form of delivery. But he's telling you what you want to hear, almost certainly… How about considering ways in which education can provide broad and engaging learning for students, while we also take responsibility for what happens outside our classrooms? Begin to monitor and regulate our children and own tech use, read more, have intelligent conversations where we check our assumptions (steel manning the arguments of those we disagree with before dismissing them), work together to generate creative solutions to problems, stop blaming systems exclusively and underscore the importance of what we can do as individuals and communities, all the while stressing personal agency.
This is extremely important to hear!
Our school system is missed up because John D. Rockefeller wanted people smart enough to work his factory's and not smart enough to think. He said that.
It the sense of humour for 😂 South Africa need someone like Sir Ken. RIP Sir
Epic visionary!
I love this man 😂😂 He's so funny
amazing ❤
Come back to the UK Ken we need you!
GIBBERISH politician talk, he doesn't touch the ground reality
TEACHING IS A "JOB", 80% people don't love their job, they do it cz they need money to support,so imagine a job where you have to face multiple characters every single fucking day who won''t listen to you, but you can't loose the job……what do you do, you learn to IGNORE them unfortunately along with anyone not in tht category, and you focus only on those who are good students,trying hard students, but what about the middle ones.
im a graduated person, no job and teachers scopes are most common and open everywhere, granted you have to pass teh exam, but i don''t want to be the person i hate, but its a rat race, many unwillingly join teachers and in the same circle of ignoring others, they keep on going, destroying lifes.
Comedy shows. Boring.
0:37
Seeing it after 10 years of posting this video. Still there is alot to change in education system.
Glad he was brave enough to say AD-HD is likely very over diagnosed.
13:57 Education doesn’t go on in the committee rooms. Get politicians and politics out of our classrooms.
So what can we do about it? I know the school system is terrible, but if you drop out people will think you are stupid and unemployable.
I am moved to tears by this man's talk.
He hits it right on the nail: What we all have needed and what most of us didn't get.
We were lucky if we got a glimpse of a meaning of being alive…
I love everything he said he was so philosophical ❤ But I don’t think he said it right about China and Korea 😅Basically they have the most controlled and standardized educational systems from what I know
It would do modern schools very well to remember this
Большое спасибо за это видео❤❤❤
As one “teaching and learning” with my students, I was greatly inspired by this TED. Thanks a lot🫰
SilentWeaponsForQuietWars
Me costo seguir su ingles… pero es grandioso !. lo llevo a mi aula.