Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on The Learning Revolution at TED Talk Conference

Last semester while I was searching for my assignment, I came across with this Ted Talk and especially this part of that speech caught my attention:

”And I was up in San Francisco a while ago doing a book signing. There was this guy buying a book, he was in his 30s. I said, “What do you do?”

And he said, “I’m a fireman.”

I asked, “How long have you been a fireman?”

“Always. I’ve always been a fireman.”

And I said, “Well, when did you decide?”

He said, “As a kid. Actually, it was a problem for me at school, because at school, everybody wanted to be a fireman.” He said, “But I wanted to be a fireman.” And he said, “When I got to the senior year of school, my teachers didn’t take it seriously. This one teacher didn’t take it seriously. He said “I was throwing my life away if that’s all I chose to do with it; that I should go to college, I should become a professional person, that I had great potential and I was wasting my talent to do that.” He said, “It was humiliating. It was in front of the whole class and I felt dreadful. But it’s what I wanted, and as soon as I left school, I applied to the fire service and I was accepted. You know, I was thinking about that guy recently, just a few minutes ago when you were speaking, about this teacher, because six months ago, I saved his life.” He said, “He was in a car wreck, and I pulled him out, gave him CPR, and I saved his wife’s life as well.” He said, “I think he thinks better of me now.”

http://sirkenrobinson.com/bring-on-the-learning-revolution/

As I understood from that speech, we shouldn’t force the students to enter a university or to have a profession. Let them see what they want to be, let them give a chance to imagine and maybe in this way they can reach their goals and dreams, who knows?