Faults in Education

            The TED presentation that I've found to be the most interesting so far was Austin's presentation on the talk about the flaws in our education system. After hearing his presentation I genuinly want to look this guy up and watch his talk so that I can hear more about what he had to say. I found this one to be the most entertaining for a couple of reasons.
             The first reason is fairly shorty and simple. Basically the talk itself looked really visually entertaining. Instead of just having a guy walking around on stage talking about his ideas, it was like an animated white board that the presenter was drawing these funny detailed images on that made up this whole scene which basically represented what he was explaining. It was really cool to see him draw out his presentation rather than just talk to us. And not only did it make it more entertaining, but I feel like his drawing made it easier for me to understand and follow what was going on.
              The second reason i really enjoyed this talk was because I agree with what the presenter was talking about. Basically what I got out of it was that our education system is flawed and runs like an industrial assembly line. Grouping people by age rather than interests and abilities and focusing on the same information to pump into each student. And the presenter talked about how this is not the best way for our education system to work. He said that all students are different and have different skills and abilities that are better or worse than others their age, and they should be grouped more based on that. Also that the standardization of the content that we learn is blocking our creativity, and not just our creativity but out interest in school. He shows how the reason that most students find school boring is because we are sitting in a desk while someone is explaining boring stuff to us. Because of this, he shows how kids have a hard time paying attention (usually just because they are bored out of their mind) so many kids then get diagnosed with ADHD, and get doped up in order to pay attention. In explaining this he also shows the correlation between standardized education and ADHD. 
              All this stuff that he talked about is stuff that I both find interesting and generally agree with. I think our education system needs to figure out a way to reorganize itself and focus more one each individual student, and what their skills and abilities are, and what career would actually be best for them. Rather than standardizing the majority of the content that we learn. The only thing is I really don't know how they can do that, so I plan on watching the whole of this TED talk and maybe getting some ideas.