Ken Robinson pinpoints during his Ted Talk that we have built our education systems on the model of fast food, where everything is standardized. This model of education is impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies. And this model is just not good for a couple of reasons. One of them being the fact that human talent is diverse (people have very different aptitudes). Another important factor to take into account is people’s passions. Robinson talks about the fact that people are good at things they don’t really care for: It’s about passion, and what excites our spirit and our energy. And if you’re doing the thing that you love to do, that you’re good at, time takes a different course entirely. [...] If you’re doing something that doesn’t resonate with your spirit, five minutes feels like an hour. And the reason why so many people are opting out of education is because it doesn’t feed their spirit, it doesn’t feed their energy or their passion.
Long story short, he wraps up his talk by showing a path on how to revolutionize education: Now, in this room, there are people who represent extraordinary resources in business, in multimedia, in the internet. These technologies, combined with the extraordinary talents of teachers, provide an opportunity to revolutionize education. [...] we have to change from the industrial model to an agricultural model, where each school can be flourishing tomorrow. That’s where children experience life.
