If you haven’t already discovered this excellent video, take some time out and enjoy.  Though this is a serious subject  Sir Ken discusses, his dry wit will have you rolling on the floor in agony!

I have also written a review of his book “The Element – How finding your passion changes everything”. you will find that below the video.

This book is both inspiring and uplifting, written with great passion and love by a writer who is obviously in his “Element”. Robinson, or Sir Ken I suppose I should call him, is an educator; not a teacher – but someone who seeks to bring out the best in all young people and who sees that while some teachers may do this, education systems around the world do not seem to.

Although this may sound dry – actually it is anything but, as the book is peppered with the stories of those whom the education system failed and who climbed out of that failure to become world leaders in their chosen fields. People like Paul McCartney, with whom Sir Ken is on the board of directors of LIPA (Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts); Gillian Lynne, tutor and principal ballerina at the Royal Ballet and choreographer of Cats and Phantom of the Opera; Matt Groening of The Simpsons; and many, many, more.

The complete title of the book is “The Element – How finding your passion changes everything”.  Sir Ken expects that the aim of all education – private, public, state or home-based – should be to honour the Element within each child on an individual basis. If that is not achieved then the schooling children receive at age 5 may continue to teach them to be cogs in an Industrial Revolution model, but it may not fit them for careers that don’t even exist yet in a tomorrow that is way off our scale of imagining today.

The need for inspired young people, who live in their Element, their passion, is never more than now. However, the book is written with love and warmth rather than being a rant – worth reading, I think.

See below how to order your copy.