Are We Delivering a Fast Food Education?

Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson delivered a speech for TED Talks: Ideas worth spreading.  I have watched his famous TED speech from 2006 a few times, and was anxious to hear what he has to say in 2010.   He challenges the way we're educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity. 


 
Here's the text from my favorite part:

I think we have to change metaphors. We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and conformity and batching people. We have to move to a model that is based more on principles of agriculture. We have to recognize that human flourishing is not a mechanical process, it's an organic process. And you cannot predict the outcome of human development; all you can do, like a farmer, is create the conditions under which they will begin to flourish.

It's about customizing to your circumstances, and personalizing education to the people you're actually teaching. And doing that, I think is the answer to the future because it's not about scaling a new solution; it's about creating a movement in education in which people develop their own solutions, but with external support based on a personalized curriculum.