Tag: ken robinson
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Encouraging students to flourish
TED Talk – Ken Robinson: How to escape education’s death valley Another great presentation from Ken Robinson where he talks about how the current design of school systems ignore the principles that encourage children to flourish. If you sit kids down hour after hour doing low-grade clerical work, don’t be surprised if they start to…
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Can curiosity survive formal education?
I came across this interview with Aaron Swartz on the Fast Company site, where the following question was presented to Aaron: “You did a lot of important things at a very young age, could you describe a few of them? And how do you see and would explain that? Talent, inspiration, curiosity, hard work? Is there something…