Elizabeth Harson:  Responding to Ken Robinson:  Bring on the learning revolution!

Ken Robinson states we have a “climate crisis” in education.  He believes we make poor use of our talents and many go through life never really knowing what their real talents may be or if they have one at all.  They are many people in their present job who don’t enjoy what they do nor do they get any pleasure in it at all, they endure it and look forward to the weekend.  There are those who love what they do and couldn’t imagine doing anything else.  It isn’t what they do, it is who they are. 

Many think the education system needs to be reformed, meaning the system is a broken model.  Robinson believes the system needs to be transformed into something else. 

In a nutshell, he believes the answer to the future is creating a movement in education in which people develop their own solutions based on a personalized curriculum.  He stated that we need to think of it as an organic process, recognizing you can’t predict the outcome, but you can create the conditions under which thy will begin to flourish. 

I agree, in that we do have to create conditions for our children to flourish.  We have to nurture them in a way that they will grow and make progress.  I have been in education over 20 years, I don't necessarily think we need a total transformation, I pull from my experience and do what I believe to be the best way to teach and nurture my students in the learning process.