Sir Ken Robinson is an interesting figure in expressing how we should look at the way we our educating our children. I thoroughly enjoyed his thoughts and insight into this topic. He is true when he states that our current education system doesn't care what you're good at. It brings me to think what is the purpose of our public education system? Is it simply to produce university professors, as he states during his speech? If our education system only produces "academic ability", what about those who have talents such as Jillian?
I agree with Robinson on his thoughts of educating the "whole being." Too often, educators look to exclude irrational behavior rather than include it as a part of the total being. This really opened my eyes to educating the person and not who we want that person to be. The example of Jillian, who presumably was ADHD, to be written off by her teacher, then to be found to be totally gifted in dancing happens more often that I can imagine. How many children have we, the public education, turned away and sent on a path of failure. Again, we must, in his words, harness the gift of human imagination. If we don't, I'm afraid we will continue to slip into set a trend of going backwards. If we are teaching kids that being wrong is bad, then we are not allowing them to be creative.
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