«Educating the Heart and Mind » SirKenRobinson
My amazing 5th graders inspired and created this picture
If you watch Sir Ken Robinson’s speech during the Dalai Lama Center’s Educating the Heart Series you will be amazed at the astounding truth of the necessity to educate both the heart and the mind.
Sir Ken Robinson urges us to reconsider the values and assumptions of the ideology of our educational system – things that we take for granted and we don’t think about so much but which can calibrate our actions!
Every school should be different and great, built on diversity, not conformity and standardization. Education should be about connecting ourselves with ourselves and with each other, empathy, intuition and mutuality.
Education is personal, and needs coordination between teachers and students, negotiated programs, collaboration, group work and mutual support. The Arts should be back into education and we should get children to focus in on themselves: Make the alternative into the main stream
«Human beings and schools are organisms not mechanisms and if you create certain cultures and to pull away people flourish and in other cultures people tend to feel demeaned» So let’s o look at the nature of the culture of the school, the vibrancy of the school because we are all unique but together we can create unique patterns and forms of behaviour which we can change.
