How to Escape Education's Death Valley
Sir Kenneth Robinson
April 2013
Key Points:
1.
Education in
the US is based on conformity rather than the reality of diversity. Sir Kenneth
highlights the point that students suffer from “childhood”. He says that
children prosper when a curriculum touches and accesses their interest and
curiosity. His point that, if you sit a child down and expect them to do 6 hours of office scribing, you get wiggly children is so evident in today's schools. I believe that this is more relevant now than it ever was. With
drop-out rates at an all-time high in many areas, we need to be finding ways to excite the interests of students, encouraging them to explore and expand their interests rather than just having them become pencil pushers in classrooms.
