Second week of the term break and I'm still thinking about Sir Ken Robinson. While browsing in Annie's Bookshop at the Peregian Beach shopping centre, I noticed a book by Sir Ken and his daughter. Glancing at it, I was again reminded of his on-going influence. He left quite a legacy!
What I especially love about his thinking is the way he mentions the past, but looks to the future:
One of the essential problems for education is that most countries subject their schools to the fast-food model of quality assurance when they should be adopting the Michelin model instead. The future for education is not in standardizing but in customizing; not in promoting groupthink and “deindividuation” but in cultivating the real depth and dynamism of human abilities of every sort.
We've still got a long way to go, Sir Ken, but we're working on it!
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