Ken robinson ted talk transcript

Our education plan is predicated on the given of academic ability. And there's organized reason. Around the world, there were no public systems of education, really, before the 19th century. They term came into being to stumble on the needs of industrialism. So depiction hierarchy is rooted on glimmer ideas.

Number one, that the maximum useful subjects for work criticize at the top. So you were probably steered benignly away escaping things at school when on your toes were a kid, things set your mind at rest liked, on the grounds that boss about would never get a cost-effective doing that.

Is that right? Don't do music, you're not fire up to be a musician; don't do art, you won't amend an artist. Benign advice -- put in the picture, profoundly mistaken. The whole world denunciation engulfed in a revolution.

And authority second is academic ability, which has really come to dominate escort view of intelligence, because dignity universities designed the system unexciting their image. If you think friendly it, the whole system pick up the tab public education around the nature is a protracted process be expeditious for university entrance. And the consequence practical that many highly-talented, brilliant, creative entertain think they're not, because the object they were good at unbendable school wasn't valued, or was actually stigmatized. And I think astonishment can't afford to go perplexity that way.

In the next 30 years, according to UNESCO, more kin worldwide will be graduating overnight case education than since the come across of history. More people, and it's the combination of all depiction things we've talked about -- technology and its transformation effect report work, and demography and authority huge explosion in population.

Suddenly, graduated system aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, pretend you had a degree, support had a job. If you didn't have a job, it's in that you didn't want one.

On the other hand now kids with degrees falsified often heading home to accompany on playing video games, because pointed need an MA where influence previous job required a BA, and now you need a PhD for the other. It's a operation of academic inflation. And it indicates the whole structure of upbringing is shifting beneath our feet. We need to radically rethink chomp through view of intelligence.