RSA Animate – Changing Education Paradigms INDEED!

Clever but seriously flawed

“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.” ~ Winston Churchill

So what’s my beef with
Sir Ken Robinson???

Royal Society of Art’s figurehead, “world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of RSA’s Benjamin Franklin award,” as it says in the description under at least one of his cleverly animated lectures on education, posted on UTube.

His content is out of integrity
with what he says he stands for.

Black and white, perhaps, but misinformation in my area of expertise makes me question the sincerity of his quest as well as the validity of the rest of the items in his presentation.

To be truthful, it’s his derision that really gets me, even more than his ignorance.  I have always found it offensive when people attempt to sway others by poking fun rather than profering truth. It’s not funny, really.  It shuts down thinking.  And isn’t his point that we need to do the exact opposite?

Any “education expert” who doesn’t do his homework before formulating his opinion, quickly sliding his ill-researched conclusions into a presentation positioned as transformational knowledge as if they were established  ”fact”
needs SOMEBODY to call him on it.

Dag-nabit! The guy does so many things right. I applaud his vision and agree with so much of what he says — and his real-time drawings are just too darned adorably effective. I’m really sorry I can’t be unconflicted in my support of his work.

I wish I could, but I can’t.  

What I really wish is that I’d never been made aware of him, because I can’t unknow what I’ve recently observed, and I’d be out of integrity myself if I let it slide.

I just HATE being hoist on the petard of an ethical dilemma!

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