Sir Ken Robinson inspired educators around the world with his vision of child-centered schools that focused on imagination, creativity, the arts, and the joy of learning.
Sadly, he died last August at the age of 70.
His daughter Kate Robinson has organized a virtual celebration of his life and work on March 4, called “Imagine If…”
I hope you will watch it.
The New York Times said this about him:
Ken Robinson, a dynamic, influential proponent of stimulating the creativity of students that has too often been squelched by schools in the service of conformity, died on Aug. 21 at his home in London. He was 70.
His daughter, Kate Robinson, said the cause was cancer.
A British-born teacher, author and lecturer, Mr. Robinson viewed large school systems as sclerotic, squeezing the creative juices out of children by overemphasizing standardized testing and subjects like mathematics and science over the arts and humanities.
“There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance every day to children the way we teach them mathematics,” he said during a TED Talk in 2006 that has been downloaded 67 million times, the most in the lecture organization’s history. “I think math is very important, but so is dance. Children dance all the time, if they’re allowed to.”
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Of possible interest to some readers. Sir Kenneth Robinson’s was enlisted as an advisor to the President of J. Paul Getty Trust, an operating foundation in Los Angeles. He move to LA for this assignment and a once intended, if unrealized, effort to influence that organization’s work on arts education in the United States. https://www.getty.edu/news/press/leaders/robinson.html
“creativity squelched by schools in the service of conformity”
Do NOT blame professional community-based public school teachers.
Who is to blame for the conformity that is squelching creativity?
Presidents Ronald Reagan, the 1st Bush, Bill Clinton, the 2nd Bush, Obama, and the traitor and serial liar Donald Trump.
And, billionaire oligarchs such as Bill Gates, Betsy DeVos, the Walmart Walton family, and the Koch brothers.
What did those presidents and oligarchs do to squelch creativity?
They forced Common Core, Race to the Top, and high-stakes tests on OUR community-based public schools.
Ken Robinson just repackaged the conventional Romantic view of creativity’s origins. But this view is flawed. Shakespeare had the sort of education that Ken Robinson deplored, yet it was integral to his creativity, as this article convincingly shows. I don’t think Robinson really knew what he was talking about.
https://daisychristodoulou.com/2017/03/shakespeare-and-creative-education/