Particularly, how a revolutionary idea like public education has devolved over time and perhaps become a symptom of what ails our society.
In another video on the same topic, Sir Ken describes the story of Gillian Lynne. Ms. Lynne is a famous choreographer of the musical CATS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillian_Lynne and many other Broadway plays and musicals. Her story is interesting to our topic because she was famously doing poorly in school and in particularly had trouble sitting still. Ms. Lynne was saved by her thoughtful principal, who instructed her parents to take her to dancing school rather than sit in classes. Today it is probably common that Ms. Lynne would have been medicated, told to calm down and worse, missed her calling to become one of the greatest choreographers the world has known.
Change is hard. Not only for an individual but imagine changing and entire school. What would you do if you were in charge? What changes would you implement to make education more meaningful to young people? What about here at St. Saviour?
