After watching the video of Sir Ken Robinson speaking, I found he made what I think are some valid points, and points that I honestly haven’t really thought about before in that perspective. There were a few main statements that he said that really stood out to me. First, he says that we are supposed to be preparing kids for the future, which we don’t know anything about. I found this statement very interesting and it really struck me. All I kept thinking is how true this point is, but that all we can do is teach kids what we know now in help them learn from our experiences.
Another statement that I completely agreed with was when he said “Kids will take a chance, not afraid of being wrong.” How true is this. When children are so small they will say whatever is on their minds and not worry about it at all, and they come up with such amazing insights, yet for some reason our culture does look down upon this originality. This brings me to the next statement I found interesting “If you’re not to prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original” The first thought that came to my mind here was, experiments and Einstein. How many times did he “fail” before he invented the light bulb? I have found that kids are too afraid to answer questions in fear of being wrong, especially when it comes to mathematics.
I found this video very insightful, and I think he made some very valid points.. it really got me thinking
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