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20 ENTRIESIn 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.
The fish story at the beginning of David Foster Wallace’s 2005 Kenyon address is a way into an uncomfortable question: how often do we notice the assumptions through which we experience ordinary life? This Is Water is not a.
Rowling addressed Harvard graduates in 2008 with two themes that sound unlikely at a celebration of academic success: the value of failure and the moral responsibility of imagination. She connected both to her own experiences
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
Dweck’s growth-mindset talk is often reduced to a slogan about trying harder. Her real educational question is more demanding: what changes when a person views an unfinished ability as something that can develop through usefu
Pierson speaks from decades in education about a relationship that test scores alone cannot capture: whether a child believes an adult notices, respects and expects something of them. Her talk is remembered for its energy, bu
Salman Khan describes the development of Khan Academy and argues that video lessons plus interactive practice can change what happens inside a classroom. The proposal gives students opportunities to revisit explanations while
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
In ‘Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance,’ psychologist Angela Duckworth recounts moving from consulting into classroom teaching and becoming interested in why some students persist when learning is difficult. Her 2013 TED talk presents g
