Do we need to transform our education system?

Do we need to change the way we educate our children?

Do we need to transform the way we learn ?

Change is fixing the past ……

Transformation is creating the future 

Here is one of the funniest most profound  most brilliant Ted talks I have heard by Sir Ken Robinson as he questions whether we are killing creativity! 

Are we educating our kids out of creativity - to conform to how we have lived and how our parents lived - (we haven’t done such a good job?) 

Maybe we should start with a blank piece of paper? 

Maybe we should focus on what the child’s natural talent is - and start from there ? 

Maybe we should change our education struts to coach a child vs teach them things that we may not need ? 

Is creativity as important as literacy and math ? 

Is dance as important as math ?

Has our education system been designed to meet the needs of industrialisation?

Have we mined our minds for specific functions for industrialisation - like we have strip-mined the earth for a particular commodity ?

Is the teaching of values, being kind to your fellow man, looking  after the planet, dance, smelling the roses , playing the guitar - as important as maths, reading and writing ? 

Maybe Mark Prensky has a point?