Notes from a TED talk by Ken Robinson "Bring on the learning revolution!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFMZrEABdw4
Fundamentally, humans make very poor use of their talents.
Education dislocates a great deal of people from their natural talents.
"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion" -Abraham Lincoln
The pinnacle for modern education is going to college, but not everyone needs to go to college, and not everyone needs to go to college at 18.
Human communities depend upon a diversity of talent, not a single conception of talent.
"College begins in kindergarten". It does not. Kindergarten begins in kindergarten.
Education systems are built on the same principles as fast food, everything is standardized which impoverishes the learners.
Human flourishing is not a mechanical process but rather an organic process. You cannot predict the future of an individual rather you must allow their passions and intelligences to grow naturally.
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