Notes from video of Ken Robinson

As we watched the video of Ken Robinson,TED Lecture on Education, it was very eye opening on the way our society's focus on education has been.  According to Ken, it has been on the academic side, while putting the artistic side at the bottom of the list.  He stated that "all children are born creative, they grow out of it", which is because we don't encourage that side of them.  Part of the "growing out of it" was due to the industrial revolution, where we were focused on getting a good job, saving for retirement, then retiring. End of story.  In the early years, kids take a chance at being wrong, where as we grow up we learn to be prepared to be wrong.  At the end Ken stressed that we need to:  Rethink fundamental principles and realize the gift of the human imagination, by shifting our paradigm.