A tribute to Sir Ken Robinson
Sir Ken Robinson considered the question are you intelligent as not appropriate.
Instead, he claimed that How are you intelligent, should be asked.
A good start to access to his inspiring work is - to me - the conversation with Jonathan Fields, which took place in 2015, in Jonathan's Good life Project Podcast episode appropiately titled How Are You Intelligent?
Jonathan Fields writes the following about Sir Ken Robinson
He devoted his adult life to creating and stoking the fires of a global creativity and education revolution. I had the amazing gift of sitting down with him in the studio a number of years back to not only explore his ideas, but also his personal story. Growing up in post World War II Liverpool, a fiercely-active kid who loved soccer and hope to one day play professionally (though, of course, he called it football), his dreams were cut short when he got polio at the age of four, forever changing the course of his life, leaving him with physical disabilities, and exposing him to the profound injustice that awaits so many kids labeled as “different.” His experience as a kid, in no small part, became the source fuel for his unrelenting devotion to recognizing, celebrating and supporting how each child, each person needs to come into themselves in their own unique way. I was profoundly moved not only by his work, but by his lens on life, family, creativity and service, and the story he told in the way he lived his life.
Robinson's Ted Talk on Do schools kill creativity? has been hugely viewed on YouTube and is really inspiring.
If you don't have much time right now, watch this beautiful video, with the excellent RSA animation on Changing Education Paradigms:
I am currently reading his book The Element , where he wrote about what would happen, if we dedicated our life to doing what we are truly meant to do and live the life we are meant to live.
Enjoy!
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