Bring on the Learning Revolution!

I first watched this great talk by Sir Ken Robin­son a few months ago, and since then I’ve watched both this talk and his pre­vi­ous talk three times. Not only are his talks inspir­ing and thought-pro­vok­ing, they are also very fun­ny. He is tru­ly a great speak­er.

In his first talk (below), Robin­son makes the case for cre­at­ing an edu­ca­tion sys­tem that bet­ter nur­tures cre­ativ­i­ty. In his sec­ond talk (above), he pro­pos­es mak­ing a rad­i­cal shift from stan­dard­ized schools to per­son­al­ized learn­ing, so kids’ nat­ur­al tal­ents can flour­ish.

Here is his pre­vi­ous talk from Feb­ru­ary 2006: