Another great talk found at TED following after a conversation with Mark the other day about the way we think and perform education in the world today. Truth told, Mark did most of the talking as I was preoccupied with looking forward to my Guatemalan Christmas dinner, so I decided to do a bit of homework for next time. Mark and I’ve spent a good bit of time before discussing the way our educations are shaping us as individuals and socially responsible citizens, and if indeed they are doing a good enough job at that. We’re both in and out of school and self studies, and have had the opportunity to look in on our schooling from the outside, and we’ve begun a little side project, a curriculum that I’ll post about again when it’s up and on its way. In any case, in this video talk by Sir Ken Robinson, in which he says we need to radically rethink our view of intelligence, is a great viewpoint on how we have developed a global hierarchical educational system which scorns mistakes and stills creative development in children, stigmatizing talented people who don’t fit into the neat categories for useful citizenry, and a highly inspirational call to arms for a new educational strategy. Check it out no matter your education and whether or not you see your body as a form of transport for your head.

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