Changing Education Paradigms

Here’s Sir Ken Robinson describing what’s wrong with our education system and how we’re thwarting rather than facilitating children’s development with our dated assumptions. Drawing by the RSA.

We still educate children by batches. We put them through the system by age group. Why do we do that? Why is there this assumption that the most important thing kids have in common is how old they are? It’s like the most important thing about them is their date of manufacture.