education and all that

some thoughts from Sir Ken Robinson:

• today, degrees aren't worth anything
• everything is shifting; so should education
• women can multi-task better
• all kids have talents; we squander them
  
• creativity is as important today as literacy
• kids will take a chance but are taught that mistakes are the worst thing
• kids are educated out of creativity
• we educate from the waist up...should educate the whole being
  
• the purpose seems to be to produce university profs and to meet the needs of industrialization.....but that has shifted....system hasn't
• if insects disappear, all life is gone from earth in 50 years
• if humans disappear, all non-human life flourishes in 50 years
• all children are born artists; the trick is staying onestory of Jillian Lynne the dancer and choreographer......she's not sick, she's a dancer
• ADHD was not an available condition then
• our system has a hierarchy of values that is out of touch with societal reality
• lots to think about there........