Sir Ken Robinson - Must-see for all teachers (and funny too!)
Teacher: “What are you drawing?”
6yr old Girl: “God.”
Teacher: “But nobody knows what God looks like”
6yr old Girl: “They will in a minute!”
Last week I pointed out how I was attending the Creativity World Forum in Ghent. John Cleese fell sick but none other than Sir Ken Robinson replaced him, and I must say the man’s keynote had its revelations. Business speaker of the year, and on top of that he’s funny too. (He worked together with Cleese on some workshops, so there is a connection)
Watch and learn: “We don’t grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather get educated out of it.” You heard it.
Utter brilliance, right? Here’s the full keynote, for the passionates: watch it, or even download it.
On-Point Podcast
well, what can you say, he’s so fuckin right !
Comment by Billy Palmier — November 26, 2006 @ 8:02 am
Damn, it’s amazing, he’s so totally right, some of the stuff has been in my head, i have this idea of a world where i would be able to learn what i want, choose what i want to know, strive towards the goals you set yourself. he’s brilliant
Comment by Tribble — November 27, 2006 @ 6:27 pm
as a teacher I can only say that not all teachers are old fashioned. i’m old skool and I teach from the soul.
So don’t be shitting down my neck, because it’s a hard enough struggle against the establishment as it is.
Teaching is a work of heart and don’t expect to explore creativity with those who lack all sense of creativity.
But don’t say no to education. Please don’t.
Comment by duvelman — November 29, 2006 @ 12:42 pm
I wasn’t talking àll teachers
Just talking out of experience, at the age of twelve I was accused of having copied an article of the newsletter, after which I had to write another article, or else one big ass punishment was heading my way. Too bad I couldn’t blog about it back in the days, actually I’m still waiting to pay the teacher a visit. I DID NOT!! Really though, it was my article, and it was nice as hell yo, was about an expo featuring Permeke, Ensor, Delvaux, etc. Why was it so hard to recognize the piece as being mine? Still wondering..
Unfortunately I’ve had my share of uncreative head-in-the-arse teachers, so that’s why I’m feeling Robinson’s point here so thoroughly.
Comment by =lloyd= — November 29, 2006 @ 1:12 pm
I knew it rang a bell:
http://tedblog.typepad.com/tedblog/2006/06/sir_ken_robinso.html
Comment by Peter Forret — November 29, 2006 @ 4:56 pm
And here is another teacher, but not an English one, dus geen Engels voor mij.
Uiterst interessant, dit hier. Man, wat een onderwerp… 3 jaar frustraties komen boven, zal niet de bedoeling geweest zijn van de man, maar toch… eindeloze discussies kan je erover hebben en vaak komt dé leerkracht (oh, wat haat ik de veralgemening!) er inderdaad het zwartst uit. Ik heb lang een citaat van Bernard Shaw op mijn agenda geplakt: ‘Ik was nog maar heel jong toen ik mijn opvoeding moest onderbreken om naar school te gaan’. Hij heeft gelijk, hij heeft ongelijk, hij heeft gelijk, hij heeft ongelijk.
Ik stop hier, onderwerp te groots, te complex, te … dit kleine commentvakje zal protesteren als ik mij zou laten gaan.
Comment by flore — November 30, 2006 @ 10:33 pm