Reaction to Sir Ken Robinson

What an excellent speech. His thoughts and ideas made perfect sense to me and echoed some of my own thoughts and thoughts of others I have read as well. There is so much research out there to back up the poor job education is doing in preparing students; it is mind-numbing, really, how so many children of different demographics fail to receive an adequate education. Sir Robinson touches on this in his example of the highly successful ballerina and choreographer who could not sit still in class as a kid; children have to be able to relate to the material they are presented in order for them to learn and also have to be accommodated for each individual learning style. Children must be able to bring their unique talents to the classroom and have them nurtured, not discouraged. The goal of every teacher should be to adapt the curriculum to the student, not adapt the student to the curriculum.