Video on education

This is an animated video written as an imagery background to the lecture by Ken Robinson, Changing education paradigms.

Ken Robinson is an author, speaker, advisor and educationalist. He has done many lectures in the past on education and education in arts. In the video he begins by discussing previous and current traditional educational systems worldwide. Specifically on what is taught to children, “if you work hard, do well, get a degree, you get a job. A degree is no longer a guarantee.” He also mentions dividing children by age and why we do this, ADHD and medication, anesthetic. He believes, “The system of education we use is modeled on the interest of industrialism and in the image of it”, and that the system we use, “was designed and conceived for a different age”. Robinson brings up divergent thinking, “An essential capacity for creativity”. He speaks of a test for divergent thinking tested on 1,500 kinder garden students. They scored 98%. They re-tested the students years later, and again following that. From the results the student’s percentage decreased of the years and became worse in divergent thinking. Most likely caused due to the system of education – “one answer is correct and it’s at the back.” The topic is very thought – provoking and captivating. It creates much debate with many different views.