#28. So Ken Robinson...

When I heard we would be watching the 18 minute presentation Ken put on at TED, I was worried I would be bored...falling asleep. However, I was pleasantly surprised about how funny he was! I need to start by saying that the funniest part in the whole talk was when he said the Nativity joke about "We have myrrh, gold and...Frank sent this." I think I took away a valuable lesson from the talk, mainly that everything in our modern world is changing and advancing...except for education. It's weird really that people haven't put much thought into how our education works. It works for everyone because it's easiest. Teachers don't want to change how they teach, students don't feel passionate enough about the issue to do anything about it. And those who DO want to change things, will be shot down by the teachers and adults who don't want to change. I've learned from watching Ken's lessons in class that Creativity is extremely valuable and as we grow older, we stop protecting our creativity. Instead we trade it away for a job that gets us good money, a stable job and an easy life. We begin going through the motions (beginning with attending school everyday) because we are stuck in a pattern that this is what you should do in life.