In a recent appearance at TED, Sir Ken Robinson \u2013 the British author who shocked us a few years ago saying that schools kill creativity \u2013 hits the nail on the head again. On his deep analysis of the actual education system, he is telling us that life is not linear. So why education should be? He claims that this is something that we accept without further questions because we are used to it. But we have to make a change. Not an evolutionary change but a revolutionary one.<\/p>\n
He explains that we have an education system that works as a factory (I imagine input and output, a mounting chain, clear goals, objectives and careers) and that we have to shift this (back?) to an agricultural model: creating good conditions so people can flourish. Actually, this reminds me about Thomas Bley \u2013 a brilliant design educator \u2013 quoting Antoine de Saint-Exup\u00e9ry: \u201cIf you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n I absolutely agree with him and I am thinking that perhaps the linear way of thinking we have now is related \u2013 among other causes \u2013 to the \u2018Gutemberg’s parenthesis<\/a>\u2019: we used to have a more organic understanding of the world that was forgotten (mainly by the invention of the book). Maybe we will slowly come back to it.<\/p>\n