How to escape education’s death valley

Posted by DAVID BC TAN under: Education on 17 May 2013.

Sir Ken Robinson does it again in the latest TED Talks. Here is the inimitable author, speaker, educationalist, professor, creativity expert, etc., etc., challenging our views about education and the way schools teach our children. In this brilliant talk he highlights 3 principles that contribute towards human flourishing and how current education models contradict them:

Human beings are naturally different and diverse
Curiosity is the engine of achievement
Human life is inherently creative

Watch and learn.

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3 June 2013 at 4:46 pm.

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