[Trump]

That TED talk misses the elephant in the room. Yes Ken Robinson is right, a lot of people are questioning the need for schooling these days. However instead of addressing the cause of such a mindset, he stumbles head long into a globalist agenda whilst presenting a veneer of social responsibility (referencing the cultural preservation) and subversive attitudes with respect to the status quo. The ideas he presents in the latter half of the talk are great, but they are at odds with the globalisation he seems to think is inevitable.

However, should institutional education actually teach kids how to think and seek out information and not hobble their innate sense of curiosity and wonder, the current economic, societal and environmental paradigm will collapse. The power structures of the world are dependant on this cheap, readily available labour. These same power structures are the ones manufacturing the future, not us the population.
A free thinking people, unburdened from the task of just surviving, are the biggest threat to the power structures of the world.

And as such, institutional education will keep pumping out the various classes of drones that supplant the power these structures wield. Education is presenting a veneer of positive change, when the opposite is happening. A chat to a teacher worth her weight will prove quite enlightening.