Sticky Learning: Why do we cling to what we know doesn't work?

This excellent TEDxWestVancouverED presentation is right up there with Dr. Ken Robinson's videos:

The Surprising Truth About Learning in Schools by Will Richardson 

If you like the TEDx read Will Richardson's 9 Elephants in the (Class)Room That Should “Unsettle” Us. Here is a sneak preview of the 9 elephants:

1. We know that most of our students will forget most of the content that they “learn” in school.
2. We know that most of our students are bored and disengaged in school.
3. We know that deep, lasting learning requires conditions that schools and classrooms simply were not built for.
4. We know that we’re not assessing many of the things that really matter for future success.
5. We know that grades, not learning, are the outcomes that students and parents are most interested in.
6. We know that curriculum is just a guess.
7. We know that separating learning into discrete subjects and time blocks is not the best way to prepare kids for the real world.
8. We know (I think) that the system of education as currently constructed is not adequately preparing kids for what follows if and when they graduate.
9. And finally, we know that learning that sticks is usually learned informally, that explicit knowledge accounts for very little of our success in most professions (and facets of life).

Dr. Jennifer Fraser and I made many of the same points recently in Uncaging Adolescent Creativity in Policy Options.