While speaking at a Technology, Entertainment, and Design conference in 2006; Sir Ken Robinson, a British author, speaker, and international advisor on education in the arts, spoke on the importance of human creativity in a world of uncertain future. Sir Robinson states that education, creativity, and literacy should be considered as equal. Therefore, meaning degrees in the arts should have the same equal value as degrees in the sciences. Sir Robinson uses the story of a young girl who is drawing a picture of God when she was informed that no one knew what God looked like. The girl replied, “They will in a minute.” While the presentation was humorous in nature to what could only be an audience of educators, Sir Robinson made key points
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Sir Robinson talks about the different learning styles of visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learning and how we all use them differently. He closes with a story about Gillian Lynne, a British ballerina, dancer, choreographer, actress, and theatre-television director. She is noted for her popular theatre choreography associated with two of the longest-running shows in Broadway history, Cats and The Phantom of the Opera. In a conversation Sir Robinson had with Gillian Lynne, she stated that she wasn’t a very academically inclined student in a traditional public school. She was taken to a specialist who discovered that she learned by dancing. She needed movement to retain information. Some therapists today would have diagnosed Mrs. Lynne with ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), but in the 1930s ADHD was not a diagnosis for children with learning challenges. Because of her unique learning style, her creativity produced great ideas that had value. Sir Ken Robinson concludes that educators of today need to prepare learners with all styles of learning and give equal value to each. He states that our current teaching model needs restructured because humanity’s future is
Sir Robinson talks about the different learning styles of visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learning and how we all use them differently. He closes with a story about Gillian Lynne, a British ballerina, dancer, choreographer, actress, and theatre-television director. She is noted for her popular theatre choreography associated with two of the longest-running shows in Broadway history, Cats and The Phantom of the Opera. In a conversation Sir Robinson had with Gillian Lynne, she stated that she wasn’t a very academically inclined student in a traditional public school. She was taken to a specialist who discovered that she learned by dancing. She needed movement to retain information. Some therapists today would have diagnosed Mrs. Lynne with ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), but in the 1930s ADHD was not a diagnosis for children with learning challenges. Because of her unique learning style, her creativity produced great ideas that had value. Sir Ken Robinson concludes that educators of today need to prepare learners with all styles of learning and give equal value to each. He states that our current teaching model needs restructured because humanity’s future is