Every time I watch the Ken Robinson video on changing paradigms, it's a refreshing reminder about some of the root problems behind our education system, as well as the ways that various educational institutions (from local to national) are trying to "fix" the problem without fully grasping the core issue (or, maybe the core is issue is being understood, but too large and hefty to overhaul...). In terms of changing paradigms, one of the hardest things to do (this is the first thing they teach you in marketing...) is changing consumer culture. Changing paradigms is very much the same thing. If we have been doing something a certain way for a long time, changing culture, perception and paradigms will be near impossible.
The video outlines nearly everything in our educational system that doesn't work - in a kind of overly simplistic way - and why the current paradigm is on a downward moving slope, with no hope of repair. It presents many different kinds of issues (from long school days, to a "factory model" educational institution, to over-stimulated students), that are being linked to one another in a cause-effect pattern. While I agree that some of this has bearing, and there are certainly links that can be made between the various components, it is a much more complex problem (he barely touches on the financial/fiscal perspective) of an EVOLVING paradigm (unlike Ken, I don't believe we are DOOMED), that will take more than a 11 minute video-segment to analyze...!
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