What I have already done? (Part II)

My next "assignment" was a reflection a TED talks by Ken Robinson. The first was titled, "Changing the Education Paradigm" and the second was about how schools kill creativity. These animated speeches were a very interesting way for the information to be presented and raised valid points about the education system. Among these were that every school across the globe places particular emphasis on the value of math and sciences over art and music (this might be because singing won't build a bridge to get you to the other side but science and math might), that schools are designed (right down to the bells) after industrial systems, and that standardized testing isn't really testing the most useful skills, because of this education is not teaching the most productive to society skills that an individual might grow.
Ken introduced the idea that as standardized testing has risen so have the number of cases of ADHD. The thing that Ken repeated and that stuck out to me the most was; “if you’re not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original.” Perhaps this is something I should keep in mind as I plan further study, etc.

I go forth on my revised searching with the idea fermenting in my mind that:

Perhaps the schooling system we are looking for is something that is not ethnocentric as it would seem the vision we try and conjure up are, but rather a fluid beast that we can pull up from the visions of the past and the dreams form the future that will live and grow as people change. As anthropologists we are taught to look at cultures as equal, no one way better than the other. Is it perhaps the fact that there seems to be a discord with this thought and the way education is taught that we feel when evaluating today's schooling.

In attempts to focus these searches I have been shown a way to create mind maps online (so cool!)Links or the maps themselves should appear on the blog and the just help the reader and myself to visualize the ideas brought up in this study.

PS I cannot create links the articles I have already read using Popplet (the web mapping source that I prefer right now)but am working on coming up with a creative solution.