Blog Post 10

Bring on the Education Revolution

According to Sir Ken Robinson, there is a climate crisis of human concern. This crisis has occurred because the human race makes poor use of its talents. Robinson believes the world is divided into two categories: those who endure their life and what they do and those who enjoy what they do because what they do is who they are. Education systems are being reformed, but that is not enough because it is simply fixing a broken tool. Education needs a transformation, a revolution, into a new tool. The way to transform education is to innovate fundamentally. This means challenge the things we take for granted. Understand that life is not linear, it is organic and we create it as we go along. The heart of a challenge is to reconstitute the ability of our talents. Robinson believes this is important because communities rely on the diversity of our talents. Education systems have been built on conformity- the idea of fast food, where everything is customized into a standardized way. People are often good at things they don't really care for, but if they are good at things they love, time is a different thing entirely. People are dropping out of education because it does not feed their interests or spirits. We have to go from an industrial model of education to a model based on agriculture. In order for the human race to flourish we must transform from a mechanical process to an agricultural process. The outcome can not be predicted but the conditions under which the race will flourish can be created. The crisis will be solved once a movement in education that is based on people developing their on solutions with the help of external support is formed.