What is Education For?

Recently discovered the RSA Animate stable of fascinating videos: talks with white-board cartoon drawings that illustrate a 10-minute precis of lectures ranging from education to capitalism and other economic issues.

Here is one of my favourite by Sir Ken Robinson called "Changing Education Paradigms":

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