Sir Ken Robinson and the continuity of the main trouble in worldwide education

This Monday we had the opportunity of listening Sir Ken Robinson and his ideas about the occidental educational system. He’s a man who has dedicated his entire professional life to study the educational system from inside and, obviously, he have peculiar perspectives about it.

I think the most interesting argument that he introduce is the way how education progressively kills the development of the talents in the children. The skills that are not related with the logical-mathematical intelligence are gradually underestimated and it seem like the educational system sees it like a menace. Talents related with art go to a secondary place and, in the best of cases, are seen as mere hobbies, so the children don’t have the chance to develop them in a professional way. In my opinion, this is the reason of the existence of bitter and frustrated adults and we can see them around every day, unhappy with their jobs and their choices of life.

I see my little baby girl sleeping right now and I think that I don’t want a bitter future for her. And then I think that she’s in the actual educational system already, growing in a context that transmit her the importance of the professional success related to the material or monetary success, killing any kind of interest in another area of human development, like arts or culture. How can parents struggle with this system? How can I teach her that success must be related with her own interests, independently of the monetary reward that it may have? It’s a difficult fight, but it’s possible, promoting her talents every day, showing her that life is not just about consume or have money, but it's about being happy with our choices of life, whatever they are.

Well, I hope you have thought about these topics, because every one of us is responsible of our future, building a healthy and fair society.

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