Sir Ken Robinson Was Right

In June 2006, a Liverpudlian educator walked onto a TED stage and said something the audience was not ready to hear. All kids have tremendous talent and we squander them pretty ruthlessly.Twenty years on, the talk has been watched over three hundred million times. The system he was describing is almost entirely intact.In Episode 21 of The Dark Side of the Moon, James, Darren and Garland sit with that gap and ask the harder question. If three hundred million people agreed with him and nothing changed, what does that say about the institutions, the incentives, and the people inside them? And what happens now, when a six-week experiment in Nigeria delivers two years of learning, and the thing that finally moves the system is not a TED talk at all.By the end of the conversation, the word we in his sentence is the one that stings.