Sunday, August 18, 2013

Not everyone should be a professor - or gadol!


Wikipedia an English author, speaker, and international advisor on education in the arts to government, non-profits, education, and arts bodies. He was Director of The Arts in Schools Project (1985–89), Professor of Arts Education at the University of Warwick (1989–2001), and was knighted in 2003 for services to education.A popular speaker at TED conferences, Robinson has given three presentations on the role of creativity in education, viewed via the TED website over 18 million times (2013). Robinson's presentation Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity is the most watched TED talk of all time (2013).

   Why you should listen to him:

Why don't we get the best out of people? Sir Ken Robinson argues that it's because we've been educated to become good workers, rather than creative thinkers. Students with restless minds and bodies -- far from being cultivated for their energy and curiosity -- are ignored or even stigmatized, with terrible consequences. "We are educating people out of their creativity," Robinson says. It's a message with deep resonance. Robinson's TEDTalk has been distributed widely around the Web since its release in June 2006. The most popular words framing blog posts on his talk? "Everyone should watch this."

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  1. If these guys are so bright why can't they set up a video that doesn't break down every half minute.

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    1. had no problem with it. try going directly to the Ted site or else use a different browser

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  2. Thank you for this fantastic link! I'm sharing it all over. As an educator (who was a child with ADD) I understand what he means when he says, "She needs to move her body to think."

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  3. I read somewhere that of the four leaders of American Orthodoxy in the second half of the 20th Century: Rav Soloveitchik, Rav Moshe Feinstein, the Satmar Rav and the Lubabitcher Rebbe, none of them spent one day in Yeshiva. Close down the yeshivas.

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    1. gadolim are not necessarily a product of yeshivas - however it is highy unlikely that the average bachur can learn much without going to yeshiva.

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  4. doesnt this contradict the michtav me'eliyahu you quoted a while back?

    2. RMF went to kindergarten with the lubavitcher rebbe's mother (see officail family biography at beginning of seventh chelek / volume of igrot moshe). the lubavitcher rebbe z"l went to hildsheimer's in berlin. so they studied in yeshivot.

    and rav elyashiv never studied in yeshiva, either.

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    1. Yes this contradicts Rav Dessler - and that was the point that Rav Schwab and others raised against Rav Dessler.

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    2. http://daattorah.blogspot.co.il/2010/11/rav-dessler-yeshiva-should-deny-self.html

      http://daattorah.blogspot.co.il/2008/10/r-dessler-produce-gedolim-even-if-most.html

      http://daattorah.blogspot.co.il/2010/11/yeshiva-education-causes-low-self.html

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