Thanks for the link. His honeyed words hold hope a dangerous commodity indeed of rabble-rousers like this current education has no need
As has been stated in this forum, though maybe not in exactly this way, education is something we do to ourselves in spite of the institutional thrashing about. The low priority of education leads to a low ability to discriminate between students & the types of talents and information processing styles they have. In all fairness, it is too expensive a task, given the money available to the school districts. The only thing worse than a cookie cutter one-size-fits all structure for education is the change-everything-for - the-sake-of-creativity, when it is implemented from the top down. It removes any hint of structure of knowledge itself or the relationships between things. Oddly enough, one of the best education systems I ever saw was in a Boy Scout troop. The end result was that in order to pass to the next rank a boy was required to master certain skills. Left unspecified was the method by which the learning of these skills was to take place. Different fathers of varied backgrounds worked with the boys in teaching these skills. Whether by design or by the vagaries of schedules in the 'real world' there was a rotation of fathers teaching the same class. Boys who seemed too-thick-to-get-it in one class were clearly able to do so in another father's teaching of the material. Different kids at different rates in different styles. Sometimes a kid-who-got-it was the best teacher of another kid. The 'expert driven' solution in modern schools precludes this precession of varied-ability- teaching that penetrates to everyone. The passage of my years through school was a contrast between mind-numbing lecture, which was personally good due to good memory, and split-up-into-groups-and-figure-it-out-for-yourselves, which was heinous. It was unguided, structureless playtime at any age from single digit to university. I agree with Sir Ken, but the how of it is the real question. thanks--mel ----- Original Message ----- From: "X Acto" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 7:01 AM Subject: [MD] school kills creativity 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… http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity .html Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
