At TED2006, educator Sir Ken Robinson challenged a familiar assumption: that an education system is doing its job whenever it measures the subjects that…
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At TED2006, educator Sir Ken Robinson challenged a familiar assumption: that an education system is doing its job whenever it measures the subjects that are easiest to test. His talk asks what happens when a child is inventive, physical, musical or unusually good…
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In this audio conversation, TED’s Chris Anderson returns to Sir Ken Robinson’s influential critique of schooling more than a decade after the original 2006 address. The episode asks what has changed and why creativity and per
Robinson’s 2013 address focuses on the conditions needed for learners to thrive. He uses the image of an apparently barren landscape to question educational cultures that confuse compliance with development.
In this follow-up to his famous 2006 talk, Sir Ken Robinson turns from criticism to a more ambitious question: what would education look like if institutions were organized around the ways people actually develop talents? He
At TED2006, educator Sir Ken Robinson challenged a familiar assumption: that an education system is doing its job whenever it measures the subjects that are easiest to test. His talk asks what happens when a child is inventive, physical, musical