Pearson ALC English 11 Students: Link to Sir Ken Robinson's Lecture

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Sophie said...: I agree with Robinson in most of his ideas. Just as he said, “all kids have tremendous talents,” but “we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.” The education system now doesn’t give them “a chance,” because “we stigmatize mistakes,” and “they have become frightened of wrong.” The result is that “we educating people out of their creative capacities.” We give them benign advices “to meet the needs of industrialism,” and “the consequence is that many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they're not, because the thing they were good at at school wasn't valued, or was actually stigmatized.” Thus, we should pay attention to students’ intelligence, which means “diverse,” “dynamic,” and “distinct.”
However, I disagree with Robinson for his pessimism of the whole education system. Although we can not predict the future, we can educate students with basic knowledge, and train them with learning skills, to face the “unpredictability” of the future.; January 8, 2010 at 10:24 AM

Pearson ALC English 11 Students