How important is a good sense of humor for a clear mind

I think some people are confused, seeming to think Sir Ken is suggesting everyone go out and get a degree in art. This only proves his point. Don't you understand creativity at all? Creativity results in innovation. Innovative people should prized in any field. Creativity isn't just for artists and musicians. It's for engineers, mathematicians, scientists. Creativity is needed desperately in every field.

Rewatching to find some hope and inspiration for 2021. RIP Sir Ken, you are missed.

Ken Robinson is one of the most inspiring speakers I have ever heard. I love finding a talk that I haven't heard before. As a lecturer who is trying to turn our education system on its head, he is a real role model for me.

I feel like I have to watch a Ken Robinson video at least once a month to keep myself sane. What a great guy.

This guy is one of my ultimate inspirations!

I love listening to Sir Robinson talk. I appreciate the quote, "We should be personalizing education, not standardizing it." Great stuff.

i love how he is so charismathic even without moving around

I would like to creatively give Sir Ken Robinson my undying gratitude for existing and getting his message out there, at least his point of view.

One of the greatest talks I've ever heard. Why aren't people like him in positions of power? Or is that honor only reserved for powerhungry sociopaths? It seems that way at least.

thank you.... I ve just started my career as a school teacher and have been deeply shocked to realize how little is done to stimulate children's intelligence and creativity, I am working on it to allow opportunities for them to grow through creativity and love (awakening joy and beauty through learning). I feel very very lonely however

RIP, Sir Ken Robinson :(1950-2020):

I love this guy so much. I could watch his documentaries again and again.

Sir Ken, what an inspirational legend!

Will always be deeply missed.

Arts makes us who we are, and express our thoughts and fears and our gains in technology. Art makes us human.

"Our education systems are remorselessly turned outwards -- to the outer world. When what kids -- and the rest of us desperately need too -- is time to look inward, and to dwell in that inner space. Where, in the end, we find the only things that truthfull make sense for us. And education is increasingly poor at giving people techniques to turn inward, and to understand the relationship between the two...." Very well said and a timely message.

Sir Ken Robinson is one of the great minds out there. Thank you for being in this planet!

Ser Ken Robinson seems like a wise human being. I had never think of education in this way. This was really an eye opener.

I absolutely adore this man, he clarifies so many things that are bothering me and that approach- we are beings of emotions who think - is very close to my own view of humanity :) "The role of the arts, I think, is self-conciously to manage this relationship etween the inner and outer worldit's to... the aim of the artist is not so much to explain his experience, ut to describe it" - one of the best quotes on art and the role of an artist EVER.

Without humility and humor nothing can be taught.

I love this guy. Absolute sense!

Excellent and will still be relevant well into the years to come....

From all the talks and lectures I've seen - there is nothing more entertaining to watch than this mans' grasp of a field, expressed verbally :)

If you actually think about it a lot of our pleasures in life stem from the arts and when we're young imagination plays a big part in what lights up our lives. I love his talks they constantly remind me of what is important in life. It was indeed a sad day when we lost this man to another world.

I agree with absolutely everything Ken says. I have been looking for such thoughts since my high school, when I already disagreed with the traditional system. I always wanted to do something about it and create a new way of stimulation and education of the children. I am sure I will collaborate with this new education. Looking forward to readings Ken's books as well as other articles and researches on this field.

His talks always seem to something like mind-opener tools! Thank you Ken Robinson!

He really brings it home at the end. Personalized education, opening up the heart and mind, finding the person inside. Watching more of this guy for sure.

this man is amazing. as a trainee teacher myself, he truly is inspirational

I have tremendous respect for this gentleman ......

Great speech thank you!!

WOW! The synecdoche analogy is an accurate explanation of what traditional public education does to us!

If there were many people like him in the world, how many lives couldn´t be lived to the fullest?

when my father had a bipolar breakdown, i was 13.. i already had various social problems (which would now be considered HFA.. but, at that age, it wasn't really a "thing".. you had a severe mental handicap or you were just shy, quiet, lazy, ect..) i blacked out much of my life for the better part of a decade, and in the process forgot a good amount of my childhood. enough of my life to, honestly, not even be really sure what i myself liked. i'm a pretty well rounded person.. but, a year ago.. i couldn't give an opinion to anything. and i was like that, roughly from age 16, when my overall anger/depression subsided a little, to age 31... not only a massive amount of time, but specifically a very important time in ones life. by today's standards, if you did not graduate highschool, go to a high end college, and have years of impressive work experience.. not only are jobs difficult, but a lot of people themselves will shrug you off in life. my resume of life is pitiful. however, over the past 3yrs of working with my aunts boyfriend.. we had gone from a $1500 investment to making 150K/yr....... what was it you ask? selling antiques. yeah, i'm an antique dealer lol. it's fun, i enjoy it.. in my specific case, it ended negatively for me but it was enough to prove to me that i'm not useless, as i had previously believed not only from a general society standpoint, but by my own father's upbringing; who i currently live with. my point is.. just listening to talks such as these, also remind me i'm not useless. i used to be immensely creative. and, with HFA, i honestly was one of those kids that enjoyed learning.. and i still do. i unknowingly learned how to become a guidance counsler to other kids in school very quickly.. before highschool. ontop of learning i've also always enjoyed being helpful. so through my own personal research outside of school (keep my age in mind at the time) i would teach myself psychology and anything related to the subject that i could find. fast forward to today.. and you have a 32yr old psychologist with nothing more than a GED and some irrelevant online college experience with a severe lack of resources both financially and socially. and don't worry, i'll clear that up. long story short, i left my "uncles" business that i had spent 3yrs of my life building up because not only did he not feel he should pay me, but i had been putting 400/mo into the business the last 6 months before i left and i came to find out he had been paying for much of his son's business, which still currently are where my fathers tools are.. so i don't honestly know what that money went to because his refinishing shop (made sense with antiques right?) was equipped for free so i'm still working on getting the money for a new car because i had to sell the old one while working. sorry, that last part still has me a bit worked up. time passes slowly for a life so stagnant

Great speech. Love it!!

Inspirational and thought provoking for all people to see-hear-feel-enact! Aye, Capt. Rick.

I find it extremely interesting when a great mind is able to engage my mind ... to get me thinking and to maintain my intense interest in this topic (even though I have my share of ADHD). It is truly fascinating to me how this man can convey his perspective on these matters with such clarity and passion. Clearly, Sir Ken Robinson has been practicing precisely what he is talking about because he can understands the relationship between the external world as well as his own inner being.

I love it and I have learned so much like mom... thanks Sir. Ken Robinson.

Thank you for your intuition and humor. I hope these ideas can turn into a new culture that elevates us humans - what a world we could be.

Amazingly talanted delivery!

This guy is one of my new favorites.

As always Sir Ken incorporates humor with his philosophy of how education needs to change.

This is One of the Best Videos Ever I have watched about Education,,, Thanks Sir :)

Lovely and deep talk with a phantastic (british) sense of humor. Tks.

Awesome! He's speaking a language that I deeply understand and believe in.

"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid" Albert Einstein

always enlightening talks from Sir!

Thank you for helping me nail my university letter of motivation

This feels like Truth to me. The act of expression which comes from the arts has a purpose which is deeply personal: it serves oneself by enabling the human within us to express what it feels and what naturally 'comes up'. Stuff like the feelings of loss and of love and of anger which come from affecting experiences and relationships. To be able to express this in a class with others- and importantly- for them to listen to you, is the greatest education I can personally imagine.

Love Sir Ken Robinson and the ideas he's spreading! And I hate working at a regular school, because me and my students feel like prisoners in the exsisting system

this man is magic, its just what we need. A thinker

always inspirational.

the truth. thanks sir Robinson!

I didn't really hear what you say. But they way you view things and sharing your view are very inspiring. It made me feel that I can think of anything, and sharing my thoughts in a very human way. Thank you very much.

WOW !!!! What else is there to say? This man speaks his truth, and many others truths also.

Brilliant! As a primary teacher I'm extremely inspired. :)

Much gratitude! Much respect!! FINALLY...comnon sense!!! I've been saying this for years!!! 🌎🌏🔍👀🤔

love this man

Truly a great Man. We miss him and he is so funny ❤😂

Thank you Sir

Sir Ken is speaking so many truths that I know intimately from having been a faculty of what's now called the Expedition Education Institute. I love the idea that the current conventional education system should be called the alternative and that all of our alternative models should be mainstreamed. The power of engaging and empowering students, facilitating creativity, empathy, mindfullness, etc. are dearly needed in education. Thank you for speaking out so clearly and well on these subjects

Love him

Forever TRUE! Students' Heart and Mind must be impacted for effectiveness education.

Probably his best speech.

I adore Sir Ken Robinson, he is spot on. I left school with a year left back in 05' because teachers were horrible and more concerned with dress codes and uniforms than teaching. Anyone who was unique or an individual was beat into conformity and now my 11 yr old is going through it and hopefully I can find a better solution before the start of the next year.

beautiful!!!

"collective cohort of humanity" BRILLIANT!!!

Man, I would love this guy as my professor

Thank you!

Thanks for this video.

Very good talk. Intelligent, human, kind, and of course "out of this world".....HOPE, though, HOPE.

Hey PK, you're right. Once there was a guy named Vernon, who said to his son: "I've never seen a guitar player or singer who made a dime". His son was later known as Elvis Presley.

"Our class was like the bar room scene from Star Wars." Lol

Sir Ken rocks!

Brilliant!

Brilliant - so interesting and true.

wonderful wonderful wonderful!

This man is my hero!

Great thoughts, I particularly resonate with the points you make at 43:00 - "alternative education and its assumptions should become mainstream education." Hear, hear.

This videos should become viral

Agreed! that would be awesssomee!

Please bring the arts back to school systems! Without art I feel lost, and now that I am swamped with homework, I have no time to do what I love which is express myself through art...

Great speaker!

I think he does. Thought provoking stand up.

Coming from east Europe...we always had music/art/gym classes. And we had many of them through out the week! I moved to Canada and my children just study math, language, etc. So little art/gym.... very different than back in Europe....I worry about them loosing their creativity....so I try to encourage it at home as much as I can! (but then they have home works from school!!!!)

very insightful!

I love this guy

IT'S IN WORDS.

he truly is a natural

All is one.

Great talk

you just quoted my thougths

great great Human Being!he is sooo right!or at least i like soo much what he says!

Damos má valor a que los aprendientes construyan conocimientos, pocos recuerdan el crecimiento del corazón. Una educación de la razón del corazón es indispensable para todo ser humano.

bring it all home!

My sentiments exactly.

Great Talk

With the exponential increase of parents turning to home education I think you're on to something Sir Ken.

uuhh, uploaded on my birthday..nice

good work