Blog #10

I will start by saying that for both non-educators and educators this is a very influential video and is definitely taking the 16 minutes of time to watch it. The question for this week is What Can I Learn from Sir Ken Robinson?

I found his entire video very educational, but I will share some of the most interesting things from this video Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution!. He started off his lecture with saying that people are divided into two groups in this world: The people who love what they do, and the people who either do not or are just, as he calls it, "going with the flow". His example he shared deals with education. He says that the education system is always changing or transforming. He then calls it a "revolution". This made me stop and think, what it would be like for someone to be a teacher and not enjoy or love their job. Everyone would suffer, but the children would suffer the most. Teachers have a huge impact in students lives. Students look up to their teachers, and if the teacher is putting negative information or charisma in their minds then that could affect how they live the rest of their lives: how they treat other people, the jobs they endure, the people they associate themselves with, and especially the decisions they make along the way. With a 2 minute conversation in the video, it got me thinking really deep about what he was sharing.

"Human communities depend on a diversity of talent on the singular conception of ability". Wow. This is such a bold example and it really struck me. The subject of college was talked about, and he said that college is indeed very important but at the same time it is not for everybody. Some people do not have to go to college to do the things they love. Not everyone has to be an educator, or doctor, etc. which is what is takes to get to college. The humorous example he gives is when he was talking to a guy who came to his book signing and he asked him what he did for a living, and his answer was he was a fireman. The man shared that he had always wanted to be a fireman, but along the road in school a teacher told him that this was a wasteful career for him and he had so much more potential, that he should do more with his life. No matter what his teacher said, he signed up and became a fireman. Later down the road his teacher and wife were in a car crash, and that student saved both him and his wife's life by pulling them out of the car and doing CPR. The teacher was in fact wrong, and surely had a different thought process after that day.