This is an RSA Animate video of a talk by Sir Ken Robinson.
Jim Montgomery tweeted this to me:
The main message is that our current education system was conceived to support the Industrial Revolution.
Education should not be an assembly line at a factory. And that’s utterly unsuitable for the 21st Century. We need to embrace the aesthetic and not anaesthetise our children through their childhood. We need to stop treating ADHD as an epidemic and embrace the changes our society has wrought which are the cause of it. Drugging our kids to fit into an 18th Century mould of educational theory is not going to benefit them or society.
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