About Education, Sir Ken Robinson

About Education, Sir Ken Robinson

Structure of the talk

INTRODUCTION:  Creativity in Education

-          There’s extraordinary evidence of human creativity.

-          We don’t know what’s going to happen in the future. (Intrinsic education)

-          Children have an extraordinary capacity for innovation.

BODY

-          Creativity should be treated with the same status as Literacy: if you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ve never come up with anything.

-          Hierarchy of subjects in Education:

The most useful subjects for work are at the top

The important thing is to develop academic abilities

-          The importance of Intelligence:

Diverse

Dynamic

Distinct

CONCLUSION

            - Human Ecology

            - Adaptation of a new conception

            - Help children to think, to be imaginative