{ Tuesday, September 8, 2009 }
One of the best days of my life was May 30 of this year when I received an Honorary Doctorate from RISD. I've always had tremendous respect for John Maeda from his time at Media Lab, and he is now the President of RISD. Amazing students have emerged from those schools, and I admire their approach to creativity and education.
The speaker at commencement was another honorary degree recipient, Ken Robinson, whose work I was not familiar with, and so I looked him up and found this talk that he had given at TED, which was profound, thought-provoking, inspiring -- and funny!:
LINK | 11:23 AM | TB
one of my favourite TED talks.
far out brussel sprout | October 24, 2009 12:50 AMI don't really remember when was the last time I laughed so hard at a TED lecture/speaker. This was a great find.
Abhimanyu Chirimar | November 15, 2009 1:31 PM{ Post a comment }
Well I'm glad you found this and posted it. I have Tumblr'd it and put it out, for the past year, everywhere i could think of because every parent, teacher and self-serving politician should see it. Thanks for TED, Sir Ken, and folks like you for spreading the word. Just look at the embarrassing struggle we find ourselves in to get us all medical rights of passage and tell me we don't need more creative minds and thinkers.
David Gray | September 10, 2009 11:13 PM