Sir Ken Robinson Ted Talk Response

Ken Robinson brought a very important point up about education. He values how being very intelligent is not always getting good grades, and being the best in your class, but living up to your own expectations and being the best person you can be. He also talked about how life pushes us too much to accell in the standard subjects while he thinks that creativity still needs to be present in all forms of education. He told a story about a girl that I thought was very interesting. This girl was thought to have all sorts of problems in school but it turned out that she only had forms of ADHD. She expressed most of her thinking through dancing and eventually became one of the best koreagraphers in the history of the U.S. She did the dancing for many famous shows including cats and phantom of the opera. Sir Ken Robinson's form of speaking was very effective and certainly kept my attention. He didn't use a PowerPoint presentation which was a good non distraction and he added small tidbits off comic relief to not make hints TOO serious. For example, he would get his point across and then he would add something funny afterwards to some it up. This also connects to his presentation style. Like I was saying before, not having a PowerPoint presentation was actually a good thing for this presentation. His talk did not necessarily need backup behind him for everything that he was talking about because his subjects were in general, pretty general. There were a few things that mattered from this video to me and my education. I had a lot to agree with him when it came to the creativity part. I am sometimes the same way as that little girl he was talking about. She expressed her intelligence throughout dancing and not through direct education. I can sometimes be the same way if I am not focused. Some days, I have no problem sitting down and thinking through a few math problems but other days I find it hard to focus if I did not get outside or have a good lunch. When it comes to education, I find this subject very important and I hope that we will be able to reinforce it in our children's schools in the future. I would really love to see my kids learning in a completely different environment than I am right now. When it comes to the world, I don't really know the full potential of this idea. The world is very different in very many places so this idea may work much better in some areas of the world than others. Overall, I thought that this presentation was wonderful to watch and listen to because for me, I like to sit down and listen to what is important to other people and the idea presented by Sir Ken Robinson was also very important to me too.