Speech Showcase: RSA Edge Lecture with Sir Ken Robinson – Changing Paradigms
Thanks to a posting by Chris, I’ve just enjoyed watching an excellent speech delivered by Sir Ken Robinson at the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) called Changing Paradigms.
Sir Ken Robinson is an internationally recognized leader in the development of creativity, innovation and human resources.
His speech (almost an hour long) has a quirky, academic quality to it, but without the dry-as-dust content many insecure PhD’s include when trying to impress with their command of the facts.
He uses self-depreciating humor to win over the British audience. Some of the humor sounds weird to those of us who live in the US. He gets appreciative chuckles when he tells them “I live in California, and you don’t…”. He speaks with sincerity and passion about challenges in education and the mis-diagnosis of kids today as ADHD.
I especially like the graphics he uses around 43:00 minutes into the talk showing the relative size of the Earth to the vastness of interstellar space. A great way to represent statistical data in a presentation.
A speech worth watching as an example of an informative and persuasive argument supported by data.
There’s just one thing I can’t get over – it looks like he & Michael Cain were separated at birth. I’m sure no-one has ever told him that…
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