United for Peace of Pierce County

Details: Written by Hank Berger; Published: 17 July 2011

Three and a half years ago, a blogger who calls himself The Vidiot and gets along in life by "working a stupid job and living in Brooklyn" complained that "Money talks and we don’t have money and they do. We are muted by our lack of financial resources. We are nothing. We are proles. They don’t listen to us. They never have and they never will. THAT is the reality." -- And this was before the Great Financial Crisis! -- What must he be thinking now? ...

Details: Written by Hank Berger; Published: 24 January 2011

Sir Ken Robinson (born in a working class family in Liverpool in 1950) is very engaging (and hopeful) as he argues that creativity is now as important as literacy in education today.[1] -- A few of his remarks: "If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never create anything." -- "We don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we're educated out of it." -- "The whole world is engulfed in a revolution." -- "The whole structure of education is shifting beneath our feet." -- "Our only hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology." -- With Spanish subtitles....

COMMENTARY: 'I have rhetoric fatigue'

VIDEO: Sir Ken Robinson challenges the educational paradigm (in 11:40)

VIDEO: Sir Ken Robinson on education in the 21st century