Education doesn’t happen in Government committee rooms, it happens between people. In this clip, from his third TED Talk, “How to escape education’s death valley”, Sir Ken Robinson explains why so many reforms fail: they treat education like a machine. But education isn’t mechanical. It’s a human system comprising of real people not data points, and if you remove a teachers discretion, the whole thing stops working. Sir Ken reminds us that people thrive under certain conditions and wither under

“The role of a teacher is to facilitate learning. That’s it.” In this clip from his TED Talk How to Escape Education’s Death Valley, Sir Ken Robinson explains how the dominant culture of education has drifted away from teaching and learning… and toward testing. Standardised tests have a place, just as medical tests do. But they’re meant to diagnose, not define. They should support learning, not obstruct it. Instead of cultivating curiosity, imagination, and real understanding, we’ve created a cu

Can kids actually lose their creativity in school? Here’s how the late Sir Ken Robinson says teaching kids to fear failure keeps them from experimenting: http://t.ted.com/H9xhifU | TED