Sir Ken Robinson: Why teaching is 'not like making motorcars'

I seem to be the queen of posting videos these days :) Here's a great one from CNN about how our education systems are failing our children:

(CNN) -- Sir Ken Robinson says our education system works like a factory. It's based on models of mass production and conformity that actually prevent kids from finding their passions and succeeding, he said.
"The problem is that educating young people is not like making motorcars -- at all," the author and educator said in a recent interview. "And one key difference is that motorcars have no interest in how they're made, and young people do."
Robinson, author of "The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything," spoke to CNN after a recent lecture at the TED Conference in Long Beach, California.

Schools today are "preoccupied with certain types of ability," he said.
Instead of trying to mass-produce children who are good at taking tests and memorizing things, schools should emphasize personal development, Robinson said. Not all kids are good at the same things, and the education system shouldn't pretend they should all turn out the same, he said.
"We can't just improve [schools]," he said. "We have to radically transform them."