Dyslexic Architect Richard Roger's Barajas Airport

This is a wordless video of one of the recent projects of Lord Richard Rogers, one of the world's most famous architects. "As a boy, Richard Rogers was dismissed as stupid and sent to a school for backward children. When he eventually escaped from formal education (having stayed much too long in an attempt to pass at least one exam), it was to become one of Britain's best-loved and most-admired architects." Full Interview here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2006/feb/12/architecture.communities Also designer of Lloyds of London, Shanghai master plan etc.

"Dyslexia, though, made me realise that people who say "but you can't do that" aren't actually very important. I don't take "no" too seriously." - Richard Rogers

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Comment by Drs. Fernette and Brock Eide on June 25, 2009 at 9:28am: We see some of these same kids - they make complicated working Rokenbok structures, they're drawing complicated buildings with arrows going everywhere (movement, lots of movement!). The least damaging way seems to be pulling them out to homeschool. A recurrent theme in so many biographies is how parents found a way to create an oasis for their kids. It also helped that many times the apple didn't fall far from the tree...

Comment by Thomas G. West on June 25, 2009 at 9:16am: About Richard Rogers: He stayed with formal educations too long trying to pass at least one exam. We want to do as much as we can within formal education. But how do we know when to cut our loses and start learning by doing in the world of work instead of formal education. Richard Branson has noted that many of the most successful entrepreneurs in Britain left school early. How can we make this work with the least damage? (I love these videos with quotations! perfect way to get us thinking.) Tom West