Legendary Architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s Aphorisms on Education and Learning
“You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.”
True study is a form of experience. (1958)
The present education system is the trampling of the herd. (1956)
(Sir Ken Robinson on the industrialization of education.)
We have a system of education that is modeled on the interest of industrialism and in the image of it. School are still pretty much organized on factory lines — ringing bells, separate facilities, specialized into separate subjects. We still educate children by batches.Sir Ken once again manages to ruffle some academic feathers while raising some important questions, like his emphasis on the role of divergent thinking:
Divergent thinking isn’t the same thing as creativity. I define creativity as the process of having original ideas that have value. Divergent thinking isn’t a synonym but is an essential capacity for creativity. It’s the ability to see lots of possible answers to a question, lots of possible ways to interpret a question, to think laterally, to think not just in linear or convergent ways, to see multiple answers, not one.
Robinson’s most recent book, The Element:
"How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything"
