Sir Ken Robinson

1. What are your take-aways from this video?

Schools today discourage creativity because it's can't be dubbed "correct" or "incorrect." Considering the ideas in AWNM, this is exactly the opposite of what the system should be, because left-brainers are becoming less valuable to society.  Education strip-mines our brains of left-directed thinking.

2. What are the speaker's effective speaking techniques?

He makes lots of jokes wile he is speaking to make a point. It keeps his audience engaged. It also allows him to transition his ideas.

3. What is his/her presentation style?

His presentation style is informal, and alternating joking and serious.

4. What matters from this video? How does it connect to you personally? To education? To the world?

The thing that matters from this video is that there needs to be a change in the educational system, one that will allow for complete education, not just education of the head, slightly to one side. This video connects to me personally because  I am in the current educational system, and I need to use the choices I have over my education wisely. Education is connected to this video because Sir Ken Robinson makes a point that education has to be full, and not just L-Directed. This video applies to the world because as Sir Ken said, everywhere in the world he goes there is the same hierarchy in education: first math and science, then language and history, then art and music, and finally dance and drama.