Another Excellent Talk on Creativity

At the Oxford Day this year, I really enjoyed talking with Goodith White.

During her keynote, she mentioned this speech by Paul Collard, which I then tracked down and found excellent. He has some interesting points on teaching, test scores, and educational systems in Japan and Korea:

Lots of takeaways for language teachers. Some of the standouts for me:

• teachers need to train students to learn outside of the classroom
• our students are going to have to make their own jobs
• students that are pushed to achieve high educational test scores often end up disliking the subject and not pursuing it in the future (English in Japan?)
• autonomously functioning (self-directed) students do much better at university or in the workforce

What did you think of the speech?