THE LEARNING REVOLUTION!!!

I  really enjoyed listening to the talk TED by Sir Ken Robinson and a lot of things he talked about really went down well with me. For starters he talked about how we have a crisis of human resources as in we make poor use of our talents and many people dont utilize them or even know what their talents are and this is real in the ideal world where we tend to forget what our passions are as seen in the Passion project also.
He also says most people don't think they are good at anything and tend to lie on their talents. He goes ahead and describes that there are two types of people those who divide the world into two types and those who do not, there are the people who dont get pleasure from what they do they simply get on with it they endure it rather than enjoy it and wait for the weekend and this makes for a majority of us since we just go to work because it has always been there and there is nothing else we can do we need to do it and then others love what they do and enjoy it and this is a very small minority of people and he says the reason why we have these two groups is education.
I also connected to when he said that the education systems needs a reformation but what we are doing is not enough since we are using a broken model what we could do is innovate fundamentally in education because we take things for granted and think that they are obvious but what we really need to do is rise up to the occasion and make things change.
He spoke about how we are used to the idea of linearity where one knows if they do something right they are set for the rest of their lives, we saw the same thing in the Passion project where people are forced by society to go into a specific field because it is tried and tested but in real sense we ought to follow our passions and do something that we love and explore the inner us that no one else has but us.
 What really interested me in how he says we have built our education system in the model of fast food where everything is standardized and this was so true since out education system has standardized everything and does not allow the student to get out of the box. People have different aptitudes and learn differently so we cant expect everyone to learn at the same pace but the system we have now does not allow for that flexiblity and we are conformed to one for all system.
We should aim to create conditions where the student can express their passion and put all their energies into it since all we have now is a cloning culture where we do what has been done before and happened to work out, we should personalize to the people we have as students since they are all different individuals. We should get out of thinking that the class should always be passive as well evidenced in the Jeff Bliss video we had and the teacher should work into making the student come up with their own solutions other than just recieving hand outs and listening to what he says and with the correct external support we could work out for the best.
 Lastly he spoke about the wristwatch being outdated and how we still use it and the same way so many things in our education system are outdated but we still want to use them because we are afraid of what will happen if we change but we should remember that even the system we are afraid of changing came up through trial and error and we should also try out new things and see how it goes and maybe it will be the best thing that ever happened to us.