Blog Post 10

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire" - William Butler Yeats

Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution speech brought things to my attention that I was not aware of.  Sir Ken Robinson explained in his speech that we are in an education crisis and we need an education revolution. Education is just reforming and not being fix. What I personally took from the video is that we as educators need to help our students find their talents so they may use them in their educational journey and in life. He said in his speech," we make very poor use of our talents". I think as educators, we are going to come across talents that we did not even know we had, but there are going to be multiple talents that our students will have that will be benefit them tremendously in education. We must teach them to find their talents and use them not only in their educational journey, but in life.  Teachers must create conditions where our students' talents can  flourish. Education has been standardize for many years, but it is up to us to change our schools so that our students do not receive just a standardize education, but a personalize education. We have to allow our students to personalize their learning. I feel like if we allow that to happen, our students will learn so much more.

"Life is not a manufactured process, it is a organic process (Sir Ken Robinson)". As educators we must let our students create their own lives; we must solely be a guide for them and support them in whatever they decided to do. When Sir Ken Robinson mention that we have to create our own lives and let our students do the same, this hit home for me. I can clearly remember the teachers at my school encouraging all the students to go to college after they finish high school. It is nothing wrong with encouraging them to go to college, but I also remember a student in my class that did not want to go to college, he just wanted to be a police officer. My teacher told him that if he go to college in study criminal justice, he would make more money as a police officer. I know that  teacher meant well for that student, but she was trying to persuade him to go the route she would have went if she wanted to be a police officer. Listening to Sir Ken Robinson speech taught me that is is not about anything but passion. We must follow our dreams and allow our students to do the same. As educators, we must teach our students that it is okay not to follow the path that everyone went down, but to create their own path. We must teach them to love what they do, and do it to the best of their abilities.

As educators, we can not be afraid to to create a personalize learning environment in standardize schools. We must allow our students to use their talents. We can not keep going along with improving broken models, but we must come together fix education. We must remember that life is not a manufactured process, but an organic one. We must help bring on an education revolution so that our students can receive the best of the best education their is.

"And everyday, everywhere our children spread their dreams beneath our feet and we should tread softly"- Sir Ken Robinson