Sir Ken Robinson: „Creativity’s a bit like literacy, you may have an aptitude for it but

never developed the abilities that are required to exercise it.”

Sir Ken Robinson starts from the premise that most educational systems - the way
they were conceived - no longer really fulfill their purpose: helping young people understand
the world around them and discovering their talents and abilities, so so that they become fully
accomplished individuals and active and empathic citizens.
"Everyone wants to learn, but not everyone wants to be educated," says Sir Ken
Robinson, and this is because of the way we organized the schools.
Many children go through the education system, believing they are not smart or good
enough, and not because they are not really smart or valuable, but because the system has not
helped them to identify their talents and abilities. The system actually creates this problem,
and then punishes children because it does not perform within the system. If, within this
system, you have a very narrow conception of ability, of value, then you automatically create
a very wide conception of inability, of failure.
Sir Ken Robinson believes that, in fact, people are born with important and valuable
natural talents, which they compare with natural resources that are deeply buried in the earth
and which must be brought to light, recognized, valued (ideally, , the role of the school).
To a large extent, learning takes place where there is opportunity and support - and
here is the example of children who grow up in multicultural families and learn 2-3 languages
in parallel without anyone "teaching" them, but just because are exposed to this multi-lingual
environment and because they receive love and support from their parents.
Sir Ken Robinson is a vocal follower of the importance of artistic disciplines as well
as sports in schools and believes in the power of art to improve school performance in
general.
Sir Ken Robinson, however, does not advocate using the same educational model in
different places, but applying the same principles and catalysing the energies and ideas of
people in the system.
The most important strategies that governments have adopted to increase the quality
of education were standardization (curriculum, assessments, etc.) on the one hand, and
encouraging competition on the other. By standardizing, the governors want to convey the
fact that they have control over the learning objectives, and if you do not do as they say you
are simply incompetent. The competition between teachers, schools, educational systems is
equally unproductive without having a positive impact on schools.
The two strategies are subject to failure and we owe our children and next generations
to choose another way: humanizing education (as an alternative to depersonalization).
In fact, Sir Ken Robinson believes in the change that comes from the bottom up - he
thinks the transformation starts from every individual. To the question, "How can I change
the education system" responds to "change what you do in the classroom and change the
education system for your students" because every person involved in education is actually
part of the system.