yes! Yes! YES! Ken Robinson hits a home-run on education
Filed under: Ideas by Jeremy on Friday, 22nd October 2010 at 7:38 amOh man! I dream of attending the kind of schools Ken Robinson dreams about. He sees education for what it really is and, more importantly, for what it really should be.
(via: Brain Pickings)
I love the animation of this. It’s easy to see how you could make any subject more interesting with the use of a high-speed white board artist. Goodbye textbooks, hello ipads?
I am writing a paper about daydreaming and creativity and incorporating Sir Ken and his ideas in it, thanks for this!
This really struck a chord with me. Going through school definitely robbed me of my capacity for divergent thinking. It’s only in the past few years, especially with the influence of a certain crazy someone in my life, that I realized exactly what it was that I was missing, and the importance of it. Trying to think that way when you’re out of the habit is really really hard…but it’s still buried in here somewhere!
I want this high speed white board artist working for me full time. I find it so hard to pull students out of their stupor and engage each one…but this is what trying to educate the masses results in when we hold equality of education for all paramount. This attempt at equality is governed by the restraints and principles of the economy –one education for all (or none, as the case may be).
Oh wow, there’s an animated David Harvey on Capitalism…..
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