How to escape education's death valley | Sir Ken Robinson

Organic and school culture is absolutely essential. Culture is an organic term, right? Not far from where I live there is a place called Death Valley. Death Valley is the hottest and driest place in the United States and nothing grows there. Nothing grows there because it doesn't rain. Hence Death Valley. In the winter of 2004 it rained in Death Valley. In a very short time seven inches of rain fell. And in the spring of 2005, it was a phenomenon. The entire floor of Death Valley was covered in flowers for a time. What is proven is that: Death Valley is not dead.

Is sleeping. Right in the middle of the surface are these seeds of possibilities waiting for the right conditions to explode, and in organic systems, if the conditions are right, life is inevitable. It happens every time. You take an area, a school, a province, you change the conditions, you give people a different sense of possibility. another set of disabilities, a broader range of opportunities, the relationship between teachers and students is encouraged and valued, people are given the option to be creative and master what they do, and once disadvantaged schools are brought back to the forefront. life. Great leaders know this.

The true role of leadership in

education

should not be controlled or commanded by the national, state and school level. The main role of leadership is to control the environment, create an environmental opportunity. And if you do this, people will defend him and things will happen that they did not foresee or expect. It's a wonderful quote from Benjamin Franklin. "There are three types of people in the world: those who do not change, those who do not understand, those who do not want to understand, those who do everything possible to achieve it. There are people who are changeable, people who see the need for change and are willing to listen to it and there are people who move, people who make things work.

And if we can encourage more people, this will be a movement. And if the movement is strong enough, that means, in the best sense of the word, a revolution. And this is what we need. Thank you so much. Applause. Thank you so much. (Applause)