TED Talk

For Learning Knowledge and Education, we looked at an inspirational talk on TED, which focused on the changes that is needed in the education system by Ken Robinson. I have found my own inspiring talk from TED by J K Rowling at Harvard University. She talks about the benefits of failure, and what she wished she knew when she was graduating. She takes a humorous view on what she had studied at university, her parent’s views, being brought up in poverty and how she failed in early life. She says if she had never failed she wouldn't be where she is today. "Some failure is enviable", J K Rowling says that everyone will encounter failure at some point in life and it gave her more of an experience about life than her degree. She goes onto talk about the importance of imagination; she says it is the foundation for invention in life.

        J K Rowling also talks about those who close off to imagination, who are ignorant to what does not affect them which goes on in the world, or emphasise with others. "We touch other people's lives simply by living". She urges the students to use their advantages to speak up and transform our world.

        The speech is very inspiring, and gives an insight to J K Rowling's hardship she uncounted when trying to make it as a successful author.