JJFBbennett

WE NEED A SENSE OF BALANCE Why is creativity taken out of productivity? Why is innovation taken out of teaching? Why are schools not helping students to make meaning of their skills? If public education is to provide only the 3 Rs - to enable a functioning society - is education providing a hand-break on society? ' Education systems too narrow' : Sir Ken Robinson: ABC 7:30 report video interview Dot Points Sir Ken Robinson: * a number of famous people whose traditional education failed to help them identify their real talents before they went on to brilliant careers. * our education systems at the moment are still very focused on a certain type of ability, and the result is very many brilliant people are marginalised by the whole process *a talented and a passion - well that's to say you never work again. And it is true, I think, that our current education systems are simply not designed to help people do that. In fact an awful lot of people go through education and never d...