Ken Robinson on the education system.

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In this talk from RSA Animate, Sir Ken Robinson lays out the link between 3 troubling trends: rising drop-out rates, schools' dwindling stake in the arts, and ADHD. An important, timely talk for parents and teachers.

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.

Changing education paradigms

He's the guy who champions basket weaving as an equal value skill to reading and writing, right?

Thank you julie - i will save that to read later - very interesting.

Thanks for posting julie

Very interesting indeed. He makes you think about things most people never question. Why is our education system as it is, how we're using models of the past to train people for the future, and why do we mass educate people in year groups according to date of manufacture (one which utterly failed DD2), among lots of other things.