Why We Should Mistrust Ken Robinson | HuntingEnglishHuntingEnglish - 0 views
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I was entranced.
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I felt determined that a whole new paradigm for schooling was required: the ‘factory model’ of schooling was dead.
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I had forgotten that the reality of education is a more gritty and compromised state of affairs: with politicians, Unions, teachers and the public
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enlightening scientific evidence that a fluent speaker can acutally fool us into thinking we have learnt more than we actually have
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I was looking for something like answers for systematic school change, yet all I found were charming individual examples and beguiling prose.
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maintain my infinite hope invested in an education system that improves marginally day by day, by gritty perseverance.
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Sir Ken’s latest speech was another barn-storming performance. But beyond the frilly knickers of the performance we are left searching for the less aesthetically pleasing undergarments that are the practical answers for change.
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repeating the rules of grammar with sometimes deadening repetition can actually create the mastery required for playful creativity and rule breaking.
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No call for creativity by Sir Ken would provide a universal panacea to the grey, ambiguous reality of schooling
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a fluent speaker can acutally fool us into thinking we have learnt more than we actually have in comparison to a less fluent speaker