Expanding our Mind Series
A brilliant, engrossing presentation on creativity and education! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED for everyone, especially for Cambodian parents, teachers and leaders - inside and outside government.
Why you should listen to him:
Why don't we get the best out of people? Sir Ken Robinson argues that it's because we've been educated to become good workers, rather than creative thinkers. Students with restless minds and bodies -- far from being cultivated for their energy and curiosity -- are ignored or even stigmatized, with terrible consequences. "We are educating people out of their creativity," Robinson says. It's a message with deep resonance. Robinson's TEDTalk has been distributed widely around the Web since its release in June 2006. The most popular words framing blog posts on his talk? "Everyone should watch this."
A visionary cultural leader, Sir Ken led the British government's 1998 advisory committee on creative and cultural education, a massive inquiry into the significance of creativity in the educational system and the economy, and was knighted in 2003 for his achievements. His latest book, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything, a deep look at human creativity and education, was published in January 2009.
5 comments:
Tt wonderful to watch, full of academic perspective.
i strongly believe that education, knowledge, and other abstract stuff know no boundary in cambodia. we all can share, learn and so forth from one another when it comes to interest, curiosity, education, knowledge, paradigms, concepts, ideas, phiolosophy, ethics, etc...; i think the more we all talked about them, exposed to them and so forth, the more we learn... don't be selfish with knowledge.
12:47,
You are rights, we should not be self fish when it come to knowldge! The more we share the more we learn...knowing and learning is the ripple effect on the river of knowledge!
Thanks to all Koun Khmers that are kinds enough to share these posting for all of us to learn,
Happy holidays to all,
I remain
Khmers in particular need to learn of abstracts and ctitical thinking.
Unless you're in college or university, abtracts and critical thinking are not going to happen. That's why there is a Man names Sam Rainsey which he can understand French, English and Khmer fully and try to get them to the Monkeys that are running Cambodia today and they don't get it.
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