Some interesting stuff here – an RSA Animation again from Ken Robinson, whose fascinating insights I have cited before. Thanks to my colleague Helen for the link, by the way.
The link between the growth of routine medication for possible ADHD and routine testing makes for a thought-provoking “moment” and (such is Robinson’s way) a good gag about the way different states in the US provide for what he calls a “fictitious epidemic” – but he has some important things to say about “aesthetic and anaesthetic education” and the link between patterns of industrial and educational organisation. And what do we make of the decline in divergent thinking throughout schooling? It reminded me powerfully of a poem Jack Zipes cites in his wonderful Relentless Progress, “…Because the houses of Quiet Restraint/had so few gifts in them…”
Spend just over 11 minutes on this and rethink (some) ideas on what education is about.
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