The #ART OFACADEMICS with Prof Bill Lucas, Co-Chair of the OECD PISA Creative Thinking Committee
Episode 4, Apr 23, 2019, 11:47 AM
"I like university professors, but we shouldn't hold them up as the high watermark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life; another form of life.
But they're rather curious, and I say this out of affection for them. There's something curious about professors, in my experience; not all of them, but typically - they live in their heads.
They live up there and slightly to one side.
They're disembodied in a kind of literal way.
They look upon their body as a form of transport for their heads, don't they?
It's a way of getting their head to meetings."
Said Sir Ken Robinson in his No 1 TED Talk on how schools can kill creativity, so what better intro to our #ARTCONNECTS podcast with a man, a dad, a professor who is similarly inspiring, grounded and globally impactful in his role as Co-Chair of the OECD PISA committee for Creative Thinking.
We give you Prof Bill Lucas, recorded here in an echoey room at the University of Winchester back in 2019
But they're rather curious, and I say this out of affection for them. There's something curious about professors, in my experience; not all of them, but typically - they live in their heads.
They live up there and slightly to one side.
They're disembodied in a kind of literal way.
They look upon their body as a form of transport for their heads, don't they?
It's a way of getting their head to meetings."
Said Sir Ken Robinson in his No 1 TED Talk on how schools can kill creativity, so what better intro to our #ARTCONNECTS podcast with a man, a dad, a professor who is similarly inspiring, grounded and globally impactful in his role as Co-Chair of the OECD PISA committee for Creative Thinking.
We give you Prof Bill Lucas, recorded here in an echoey room at the University of Winchester back in 2019