Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.
Some excerpts from the presentation:
…Every education system on earth has the same hierarchy of subjects. Every one. Doesn’t matter where you go. You’d think it would be otherwise, but it isn’t. At the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are the arts. There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance every day to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why? Why not? [...] what happens is, as children grow up, we start to educate them progressively from the waist up. And then we focus on their heads. And slightly to one side [i.e. the left brain].
…What I think it comes to is this: I believe our only hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology, one in which we start to reconstitute our conception of the richness of human capacity. Our education system has mined our minds in the way that we strip-mine the earth: for a particular commodity. And for the future, it won’t serve us. We have to rethink the fundamental principles on which we’re educating our children.
…We need to see our creative capacities for the richness they are, and see our children for the hope that they are. And our task is to educate their whole being [develop their Whole Brain], so they can face their future with confidence and succes!
Watch the entire presentation (20min) on TED.com
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