RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms

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I am a music educator. While this presentation fascinates me, I have to say that education was never meant to happen exclusively in a school system. If you can think of school as the 'must haves' in a world filled with hoops to jump through then it will do nothing but help you even if it is boring at times. Find a passion, something that is probably not on the standardized test. Make that pursuit your own. Educate yourself - students YOU are the solution to the crisis!

Recognizing and fostering individual talents so children know what they enjoy (are naturally are good at) is part of the way ahead. Amazingly, people maybe 40 years or older before they discover this!

Even in the post-industrial age, earning a living is still important. Perhaps we should enable children to know and develop their talents or strengths so they can serve others through their work. Then they can afford also to enjoy life beyond their work.

Theres no such as thing as "society's systems". Societies do not have a manual with rules. You make it sound as if if you want a course in "governance", essentially political science. Theres a hell of a lot more in a societies than politics and the "systems" that current politicians arbitrarily like to control (such as education).

Control is the keyword here. It is not compatible with a child's imagination.

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No, I meant learning about society's systems which most of the world doesn't really know about (how it happened, who created them etc.) (healthcare, education, economy etc.)...and then being able to change these systems and make them better...whether it's going to school for it, or working my way up the system...I don't know, but just a thought

We already have young, early childhood development. It's called pre-school.

Getting the parents involved is difficult. Most of the time they're too busy working, out of the picture for X-Y-Z reasons, or simply aren't interested.

Besides, you can't rely on parents to fix our edu. system. That's a job for boards of education and legislators. We shouldn't be running education like a factory meant to cram knowledge into our heads. It's un-engaging and doesn't facilitate critical thought.

1st few minutes i am already in awe...i have thought of a few of the issues brought forward by this video and i am glad someone else shares my views as well.

At first I thought this video was mostly ostentatious BS, but it does point out some fundamental flaws. Most of which can be addressed using educational approaches that already exist. Step 1: Start young, early childhood developement. Step 2: Get the parents heavily involved. Seems kind of obvious, but like everything else in the world, if you want it done right you have to pay for it.

I agree with you completely here except on one slight point. I think that Sir Robinson is pointing out that there are "must haves" in this world but that these "must haves" are different based on the person (except for really basic things like reading, writing, basic maths). He is saying education favours those who are good with the core subjects, and people who may be good at things like dance, arts ect will be rejected by the system and be seen as less successful or intelligent by society.

if you're not making someone else a ton of money, you're screwed

really great video. this is exactly what I've been thinking since I started my classes