Sir Ken Robinson

     I thought I would share this site (http://sirkenrobinson.com/) with you. There are a lot of people that think they have the solutions to the problems in education.  Sir Ken Robinson is no different than most people in that respect except he has the solutions, but he has the knowledge, experience, and the evidence that he is right. I have watched his videos, I follow him on twitter and facebook and time after time I am drawn to his ideals and way of thinking.  He's got it right.  The popular model of education today is the same basic model that we have been following since the industrial age.  Guess what....we aren't in the industrial age anymore!  We should have moved past that a long time ago and been on to something new many years ago and then onto something new now.  But we haven't.  We still believe that reading, writing and arithmetic are the important subjects and that all kids must take the same courses, follow the same schedules, follow the same rules, learn the same volume of information and so on. A long time ago if you wanted a job in a factory, you learned to read, write and do math or you didn't get a job in a factory. But what if you wanted to make art, music, dance or sing?  Well then, you weren't getting a job no were you.  This basically summarises how the arts fit into public school today.  They don't. Ok,  maybe a little more than they did 100 years ago, but the basically mentality of the arts not being useful is still there.
     I say all of this because Sir Ken looks at the whole picture in education and looks at the needs of students now and in the future.  He breaks the vicious circle that education is stuck in and has solutions.  It is so frustrating and maddening to witness the things I see on a daily basis knowing that there are solutions to pitfalls of our current educational system.  There are better ways to do this education thing and we seem to be heading nowhere fast.  It has led me to where I am today with wanting to teach private lessons.  In a way I feel that by doing that, I will feel like I am actually contributing to something worth while.  I will feel like there is value in what I teach.
    Take a look at his sight and listen to what he has to say.  I'd be curious to here your thoughts.