RSA ANIMATE: Changing Education Paradigms

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it as an accessible, widely shared critique of schooling, and cites it in threads on ADHD, creativity and education reform.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Royal Society of Arts

Topic

education reform

Format

lecture

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

10

HN mentions in dataset

20

Recommendation years in dataset

2011–2026

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• I have a question for HN. At what point do you become responsible for your own education? Before, you may have not had a public library near you. Nowadays, there is too much information. Curation? Multiple MOOC's have taken the problem and squashed it. Internet …

• Some of these talks (not just TED) are incredibly inspiring. I particularly love the ones that were turned into RSA Animate. [VIDEO] [LINK]

• While I do think that ADHD is a real condition, I don't think that the solution is to medicate children with a very serious life changing drug that alters the core aspects of a child's personality and behavior. The true solution is to revamp our …