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Sir Ken Robinson, Bring on the learning revolution! http://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_bring_on_the_revolution.html

Summary 4.12Challenging what we take for granted. We must rise with the occasion.

8.40 - 10.5 Education as it stands today has Linear focus. We all follow a similar path in a similar way and go to university. Human communities depend upon a diversity of talent not a singular perception of ability. The heart of the challenge is to reconstitute our sense of ability and intelligence.

A 3 year old is not half a six year old.

The other big issue is conformity. We have built our education systems on the model of fast food. This is something Jamie Oliver has spoken about. There are two models of quality assurance in catering. One is fast food where everything is standardised and the other is Michellin where everything is customised to local circumstances. Education has been sold into a fast food model where everything is standardised. It is impoverishing our spirits and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies.

We need to recognise that human talent is very diverse. People have very different aptitudes. Tiger Woods and I have both had golf lessons. Lets just say that the lessons have worked out better for Tiger Woods.



Simon Sinek - How Great Leaders inspire action http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action.html?quote=709

Great leaders all do something in exactly the same way. They look, act and sound different to everyone else.

Know What you do as a system? How do we it. Why? What is our purpose, cause, belief. Why does an Education exist?

Hire people who believe what you believe. Sell to parents and students who believe what you believe.

We need to be driven by a cause and a belief. We need to believe that if we can figure out how to provide all students with choices beyond our school then it will change the course of our country.

We need to have the same drive and cause as Wilbur and Orvil Wright who invented the flying machine because they believed that once invented would change the course of the world. People that worked with them did with passion because they had the same belief.

Simon Langley on the other was paying the best minds and wanted to be rich and famous. People that worked with him did it for the pay cheque.

When Langley found out what the Wright brothers did he quit. He had the money and the talent to improve on it. But because he didn't discover man made flight he wasn't going to be rich and famous.

If someone else on your team comes up with a better idea embrace it. Improve on it.

People don't follow what you do, they follow why you do it.

If you talk about what you believe you will attract those who believe what you believe.

The majority of people wont try something until someone else has tried it first.

What you do proves what you believe.

Law of diffusion of innovation? Bell curve percentages.

Don't tell people what needs to be changed. In the words of Martin Luther King, "I believe, I believe, I believe"

King gave the "I have a dream speech, not the I have a plan speech"

We follow those who lead not because we have to but because we want to.