Monday, November 17, 2008

Rethinking Education

Sir Ken Robinson is a smart guy. He has a view toward education that is shared by many smart people. Below is a video discussing limitations in ways in which we conceive of education. I hope it gets you thinking about what "smart" really is and that it gets you to others' smarts, though it may not take shape in the ways you've been taught to think of intelligence. Frankly, I can only imagine what greater torment Beethoven would have experienced had his worth been reduced to the absurtities of SATs or IQ.