Practicality of Education- The Ken Robinson Idea.

In a popular TED talk, British Educationalist Ken Robinson outlined his opinion of modern education and what was wrong with it. Education today he said is rooted in a very specific idea of Academic ability. This idea, Mr. Robinson suggests, is a standardization-driven focus on empirical, practical, learning and is leaving many children behind. A hallmark of this approach is an educational hierarchy which is restrictive and stifling. But something strikes you when you move to America and when you travel around the world: every education system on earth has the same hierarchy of subjects. He insists Every one, doesnt matter where you go, youd think it would be otherwise but it isnt. At the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are the arts. Everywhere on earth. His problem with the academic establishment is that it is outdated. Schools are still developed along factory lines. Genders are separated. Subjects are strictly divided from each other and there is little scope for truly interdisciplinary work. All this originated from the 19th century, where the first public schools were founded. Education followed from Industrialization and was built to meet the needs of a different revolution, the one which had steam trains, not the World Wide Web. The Central Tenets of modern education also channel many 19th century movements. The hierarchy described above is reminiscent of the central tenets of British Empiricism. Observationally-informed knowledge is key to the hierarchy above and seems to be informed by the idea that the materialist, what is known today as the scientific, conception of the world is one that is essentially correct. This means that what can be referred to as second-order subjects, whi