Friday, November 19, 2010

Ken Robinson on Education

Today: lazy. Videos!



2 comments:

Kiriska said...

AN OPINION BLOG REQUIRES YOUR OPINIONS ON THE VIDEOS, DAMMIT.

P. Static said...

FINE

I agree with the points Ken makes, when he gets around to making them - he spends too much time just sort of cracking jokes and telling stories, IMO, but in between he says some fairly profound things about the state of education.

His analogy of education to fast food is sort of brilliant, from a rhetorical perspective - it lays out a lot of problems (one-size-fits-all curricula, etc) and simultaneously short-circuits many counterarguments (it saves money, sure! doesn't mean it's a good idea). That was the point in the video where I decided that I should blog it, really.