Ken Robinson: What in education is out of date?

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with it. We must disenthrall ourselves and then we can save our country." (Abraham Lincoln) I believe what president lincoln was saying is a great example of our education system today. I think our education system is out of date in the standards we set. We are enthralled by the theories and examples of the past, and that causes us to use out of date techniques. Our education system is based on the fact that life should be linear with everyone else. They preach that we should all take the same path from high school, to college and start a career in which we have studied for. Ken Robinson said something during his speech that I found very interesting, "Not everyone needs to go to college, that doesn't mean they can't go, but they don't need to go now." As technology advances, so does our education. Today's society revolves around many talents and skills that are not always taught in any college course. Our education system has standards set on information they think we should be learning. They are stuck on the theory that we must learn what they think we need to learn, and nothing else. We do not promote a free thinking society. In a way, we are creating a mind controlled society. Starting in high school we are shunned for thinking outside of the box, or believing that something can be done or seen in more than one way. We are impaled by the thought of us having a fixed mindset. This goes back to our past readings in this class about the banking theory. All Elementary schools through high school and even some college courses use the banking theory. They hand feed us information they want us to know. Persuading a young child that being a fire fighter is not a adequate profession because it doesn't necessarily require college is absurd. The theory's that our generation is being fed, will not benefit us in anyway. We need to change our lesson plans to build individuals rather than conforming them too the ways of "Society"