Education doesn’t happen in Government committee rooms, it happens between people. In this clip, from his third TED Talk, “How to escape education’s death valley”, Sir Ken Robinson explains why so many reforms fail: they treat education like a machine. But education isn’t mechanical. It’s a human system comprising of real people not data points, and if you remove a teachers discretion, the whole thing stops working. Sir Ken reminds us that people thrive under certain conditions and wither under

“The role of a teacher is to facilitate learning. That’s it.” In this clip from his TED Talk How to Escape Education’s Death Valley, Sir Ken Robinson explains how the dominant culture of education has drifted away from teaching and learning… and toward testing. Standardised tests have a place, just as medical tests do. But they’re meant to diagnose, not define. They should support learning, not obstruct it. Instead of cultivating curiosity, imagination, and real understanding, we’ve created a cu

Everyone has an opinion about education. Not because they’re experts, but because it touched something deep. This clip comes from Sir Ken Robinson’s TED Talk ‘Do Schools Kill Creativity?’, given in 2006. Nearly twenty years later, it is still being shared, debated, and quietly recognised as true. Perhaps even more so now than when it was first delivered. Back then, Sir Ken warned that we were asking education to prepare children for a future no one could predict. And yet, we still educate them a