Sir Ken Robinson is to receive the RSA's highly prestigious Benjamin Franklin Medal at the Annual Award Dinner on the 16th June.
The Benjamin Franklin Medal is awarded to a global ‘big thinker’, someone who has shifted public debate in an innovative way and has contributed to furthering public discourse about human progress and deemed by the RSA to be significant to our core enlightenment values of developing human progress.
Congratulations to Sir Ken, such a well deserved honour for a revolutionary champion of creativity and the generous appreciation of the whole person....
The RSA is due to launch it's new website later this week, to include Vision, which will be videos of their best speakers, enabling more people to see their amazing public lecture series and join in the debate about issues raised there.
We love Sir Ken and the RSA in almost equal measure around here ... almost.
I wish there was some way that all who agree with Sir Ken's talk that schools are destroying creativity could join together. I saw that at ted.com but haven't been able to find where friends of Sir Ken's ideas can discuss them or more. Is his new book out soon and will there be a way to connect around it? The Innovation Unit we visited seemed to suggest it wanted to help link forums round people exploring the edge of education - anyway to check that possible flow out?
Posted by: chris macrae | May 21, 2008 at 10:28 PM
Hi Chris - I think that Sir Ken's book will be out later this year. It would be very good to start conversations around his work.
Posted by: Tessy | May 21, 2008 at 10:36 PM