Sir Ken Robinson's Vision on Education Quiz

Sir Ken Robinson speaks about the problems with the American education system, including the focus on conformity, standardization, and a culture of compliance, and the neglect of creativity, curiosity, and individualization. He argues that education should be about learning and that great teachers should mentor, stimulate, provoke, and engage their students. He suggests that education should recognize the diversity of human beings and their talents, and should give equal weight to the arts, humanities, and physical education. He also argues that the teaching profession should be given a high status, and that responsibility for education should be devolved to the school level. He uses Finland as an example of a country that has a successful education system that individualizes teaching and learning, attributes a high status to the teaching profession, and devolves responsibility to the school level.- Alternative education programs are personalized and have strong support for teachers and links with the community.

• A different metaphor is needed to understand education as a human system where conditions are essential for people to thrive.
• Culture is an organic term and is essential to schools.
• Schools are organic systems that can spring to life with the right conditions.
• The real role of leadership in education is climate control, creating a climate of possibility.
• People who are movable can see the need for change and are prepared to listen to it.
• Encouraging more people to move can create a movement and revolution in education.
• Education should have a broader range of opportunities and value the relationships between teachers and learners.
• Organic systems can thrive and produce life given the right conditions.
• Education needs a revolution to create a climate of possibility.