Kids say the darndest things...

Sir Ken Robinson is a brilliant British author who has published many books some of which entitled- Learning Through Drama, All Our Futures: Creativity, Culture and Education (The Robinson Report) , and his recent book The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything. I totally agree with his mentality. Education should include everything. We can just focus on math and English and science and disregard everything else. Math is in EVERYTHING. Teaching children such would only help them learn. Same thing with science and English. You need to learn how to COMMUNICATE. English is part of that, so is art, so is dance. Theater is English class.
Some of the points in this talk that I'd like to highlight are the following::
All kids have tremendous talent and we squander them pretty ruthlessly.
Creativity is as important as literacy and we should treat it with the same urgency.
We may not see this future but our children will and its our job to help them make something of it.

We have to focus on interactive learning and interactive teaching. How do we then design for these spaces for amalgamated learning lets say. You have to find what you like and go for it. But where is the platform for children to find their niche and then follow it to the ends of the earth.
We really have to not direct children but help them to find out what it is inside them that they can do.