Ken Robinson's Changing Paradigms Of Education

Summary In the video “Changing paradigms of education”, the narrator Ken Robinson talks about the current education system, the problems associated with it and the potentially damaging consequences that it renders. He also analyses how we can revolutionize the system in order to bring about better learning. He starts off by saying that every country is bringing about changes in its education system which is a dire need of today because the education system is more like a factory line manufacturing children. It is very anachronistic and not befitting for a majority of children. People are blatantly classified into “academic” and “non-academic” and the latter is let into believing that no matter what, they are not intelligent. This annihilates any scope for innovation or creativity as the society is modeled by very set parameters of intelligence. Robinson considers Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) to be a fictitious epidemic- the supposed victims of which are drugged on the premise of being unreceptive to “boring” things taught primarily in school. Students are being administered anesthetic …show more content…
He has a very close to accurate analysis of the current education system and is definitely right when he says that it is similar to that of manufacturing products in a factory. However, the reader must also be cognizant of the fact that no other system that this is practical and can sustain itself for long. The methods employed are right- the actual problem lies with the execution and the content of syllabus. For instance, he points out that the segregation on the criterion of age is not right. However, if we consider the alternatives, then age is the only criterion on which children can be classified as students are enrolled into schools at a young age and that raw age, it is difficult to comprehend and analyze their abilities and