CHANGING EDUCATION PARADIGMS

Why are these videos here, on the blog devoted to IELTS preparation? 

First of all, watching these videos, you feel great excitement, you are amazed and, I would say, fascinated by the way this outstanding man speaks, his deep understanding of the educational process, his vision of the changes that must be done in the field. His sense of humour is awesome, making a motivational frame for his ideas. Sir Robinson's charisma makes the videos immensely encouraging for your creativity, awakening your thoughts. I guess, not all your teachers of English are so charismatic, have similar vast international eperience. It's a great chance for you to learn from one of the best teachers of the world. And, as additional bonus, you are broadening not only your horizons in the educational field, but in other areas as well.  

Second, while watching, you practice listening. Any time you can pause the video and look up an unknown word in a dictionary, if need. You can develop your active vocabulary quickly and with pleasure on the wave of your inspiration and enthusiasm. The videos are always available, so whenever you have some time to revise the vocabulary, the content, the ideas, even the pronunciation, wherever you have the Internet, you can do it.

And the last but not least, you are absorbing ideas that can be useful for you when you are preparing for any English Language exam. 

Sir Ken Robinson touches different areas of human life, while speaking. You can find fantastic the ideas to speak about education, attitude to life, relations, etc. If you agree with them (and my understanding,  it's impossible  not to agree as the thoughts are delivered on a luxury plate of reserved charismatic awareness of the person's experience and flavored with precise and to-the-point examples), you can pick them for your essays (education, learning English, school life, improvements to make at school, college, university, etc.), for your speaking sessions (as for IELTS, the topics on education, improvements, your school years are very frequent).

When writing an essay (Academic IELTS Part 2), when answering the examiner's questions (Part 1, Part 3, IELTS speaking), when developing your speech based on a cue card (IELTS Speaking Part 2), YOU NEED SOMETHING TO SPEAK ABOUT, the ideas, arguments. Some of you feel lack of them, don’t you?

You can find them in a great number in Sir Robinson's videos. 

I would strongly recommend you to include the videos in your IELTS preparation schedules.

Have a pleasant and beneficial time!

KEN ROBINSON about PASSION, YOUR CREATIVITY, YOUR PATH,

When watching any Ken's video, you feel hypnotized by his ironically humorous manner in creating masterpieces, sharp bits of content. 

After watching any Ken Robinson's video, you can understand that all the bright and immensely luxurious sets of examples, stories, metaphors, ironic comments are links of one precious chain creating a great picture of your understanding the topic of the presentation, lecture or performance. 

Here is one of KEN Robinson lectures about education:

Ken Robinson on Passion   

 with the following subtopics:

- his childhood, his father's expectations, the nearest church, the happiest man in the world; 

- the things we might not know and the social attitude to those who don't know something and/or don't have their opinion about something; Peace Vancouver's Summit, the Dalai Lama and his "I don't know", the permission not to know; 

- family trees or family shrubs, the perception of how people meet each other to make a family and the Dalai Lama's vision that being born is a miracle;

- living our lives, enduring our lives, climate crisis, the new geological age caused by human beings; geological imprint made by humans;

- another climate crisis: people don't know what they are capable of, about their talents and their abilities, their power of imagination; 

- examples of natural talents, sense of time when you are doing things you like and things that you don't like, doing things that you are good at and things you like; thinking about our life as linear or chaotic,

- taking opportunities, responding to them and being responsible for them; taking the opportinities corresponding to your aptitudes and sensibilities, asking yourself if you like what you are doing now; spiritual fulfilment, senses that animate your life, feeling intoxicated when you are in the right place doing the right things; 

- even if we understand what is our great talent, if  we understand which path is right, when we follow our true energy, we cannot predict the journey, we cannot anticipate it because our life is not linear; 

- creating our lives, creating it ourselves, being able to change course, 
- transformation of ourselves.

The final message: 

The Dalai Lama says, "You cannot promote the World Peace if you are angry." 

You should be at peace with yourself, not complaisant / complacent  with yourself.

You cannot promote things that you are insensitive. 

No one needs to be the victime of their own biography. 

We are what we choose to become. 

It's a great inspiring  lecture! 

Thanks and have a great day!