Sir Ken Robinson is an intellectual, author and public speaker with whom we will learn much from, if we listen. People ought to begin at a young age discovering what drives them. We should listen to our inner self and find what we as individuals excel at and who we are truly inclined to become in order fulfill our true potential. Education and best practices need to take an alternate route from the linear ways of the past including “educational reform.”
Education should be customized based on the student you are teaching at the time and what they are good at intrinsically and are passionately drawn to in life. The standardized model of education is all wrong and learning would prove to be infinitely successful if it were allowed to be more natural and organic. According to Sir Ken Robinson, “We have to change from an industrial model to an agricultural model, where each school can be flourishing tomorrow.” Parents, teachers and administrators will be afforded the opportunity to bear witness to a child’s dreams. How can we foster the growth and development of said dreams? It is our greatest responsibility to find a way.
“Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.” ― W.B. Yeats, The Wind Among the Reeds 1899
Alexandria,
ReplyDeleteI agree with your point that education should be customized depending on the student you are teaching. Each student learns differently and each is passionate about something else. It is important for us as teachers, to find out what drives these kids and allow them to excel in that area. Great blog!