The enclosed embedded video expresses quite clearly what has been my opinion ever since the 70′s when I was still teaching in the Netherlands.

Isn’t it remarkable that so little has changed in so many years?

Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution at TED 2010.

I have been very quiet with my own opinions and views on this website. Partly because I hold my visitors for intelligent and knowledgeable people and also because I have always thought that other people already have expressed better what I want to say.

So why in the world would I add a ‘repeat’ to what’s already known and common knowledge to everybody.

On the other hand I have also discovered that very few people actually have tried doing something about what Ken Robinson is referring to. And there we were working away energetically like if there was nothing else on earth trying to revolutionize the educational system.

In the early seventies there was a school in The Hague, the Netherlands, that within a very short period of time became the horror, the threat and then the example of the Dutch schoolsystem. Although some of the initial ‘founders’ now are retired, dead, or engaged in other endeavors, the school is still there and, after visiting the website, appears alive and kicking.  A lot of the vibrant ideas, that made it so different from any regular school I can think of even today, seem still in place.

The name of that school is DelaReyschool and the website is in Dutch. However, I am convinced they will be delighted to hear from you in whatever language you speak as one of the features was that almost every language on the globe was spoken in the school due to the many students from outside Holland. Contact details are available on their website.

A lot of the ideas we developed as a team during those days I took with me later in life and had great advantage of them while working with bringing change to organisations and businesses. It has also cost me my position several times, as not every board of directors appreciates what’s going on until many years later. In a couple of cases however we were able to bring sustainable change that turned the organisation, or the company, into being successful in a single, or in every aspect of its enterprise. With ‘we’ I mean the team of people I was a part of at the time. In my experience it is never the result of ‘one single’ person’s efforts. Simply because, no matter how skilled you are, it needs a team effort and the skills of many people involved to bring around change.

As such change is always the result of the mastery of skills by many people. How to get them to work together and with you towards a shared vision is the challenge and the process you need to enroll in.

Let’s leave it here for today…