Ken Robinson: Bring on the Learning Revolution!

What struck me the most in the video “Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the Learning Revolution” from TED talks were concepts about people making poor use of their talents, the way some educational resources dislocates people’s natural talents and how most people take things for granted.

            I won’t say the name, but I know someone who has a raw artistic talent. This person can sketch cars of any kind, any motor vehicle including motorcycles. He never took an art class; he’s just simply naturally and artistically talented. And yet, to this present day, the person I speak about is a normal businessman working an office job nine to five, Monday to Friday every weekday of his life. He doesn’t even use his talent as a hobby or to further polish his artistic skills.  What surprised me the most was that he was content with his life. This made me think “What a waste of talent”. If only I were as artistically talented as he was I would definitely take that advantage.  But it was his choice, the path he chose to live. Even so, there is a majority of people who make poor use of their talents. Many people receive a decent education and yet their natural talent is never put to use or their talent just distances away from the individual. 

            Many educational resources take away people’s talents and dislocate them to a different path to live their life. I believe that if you know you have a talent, use it. Take the advantage to show the world what you as an individual can do. I understand for other people that they know what they want in life, but for others they don’t even realize their talent until they reach old age or never discover it at all.  If a person knows they are talented, show that talent and take it to use in their future life.

            A majority of people, especially the younger generation, takes things for granted.  Ken Robinson uses the example of people over the age of twenty-five wear a wristwatch, a single functional device. He then goes on saying that if a person were to ask a class of teenagers, all of them would not be wearing one since time is considered to be everywhere. People of their own generation are use to their own ways. Most people can easily adapt to the new technological era, but as the saying goes “Old ways never die".

            The world needs to follow the agricultural model, instead of being fixated on just finishing school and live life meaninglessly. What I meant as I mention agricultural model, just as Robinson explains, people need to live an organic process of life, to flourish their living skills. There is endless learning and every person should take advantage or discover their talents, polish every skill they have and be mindful of their surroundings in the world.