This innate ability consistently deteriorates as children get older and get more years of traditional education which indoctrinates them with the sense that there is only one right answer to a question and that answer is the one provided by the teacher.

Hoogland (Canada), Mme. Chantal Kaufmann (Belgium), Professor Dominique Lafontaine (Belgium), Professor Hugh Lauder (UK), Professor Ben Levin (Canada), Professor Barry McGaw (Australia), Professor R. Natarajan (India), Dr. Denise Pope (US), Sridhar...

I remembered a short clip I had watched on www.ted.com on how education kills creativity by Sir Ken Robinson when he addressed the Apple Education Leadership Summit in 2008. In his address, Robinson discussed the distinctive ability of human beings to...

In case you missed one, here’s a review of the lectures posted this week. First up, an “RSA Animate” talk — a whiteboard drawing done by hand (although edited a bit to speed it up), along with the audio from a lecture by Sir Ken Robinson. The lecture,...

First up, an “RSA Animate” talk — a whiteboard drawing done by hand (although edited a bit to speed it up), along with the audio from a lecture by Sir Ken Robinson. The lecture, like all of Robinson’s work, discusses what’s wrong with our educational...

Grandin’s brain is very visual, and that has helped in her animal husbandry work — she can think as an animal presumably thinks, and because of that, she’s uniquely situated to understand why animals behave as they do. Sir Ken Robinson is an educator...