Changing Education Paradigms

Many countries around the world are reforming their public education system around these two major themes:

Economy - How do we educate our children to take their place in the economies of the 21st century?

Cultural - How do we educate our children so that they have a sense of cultural identity, so that we can pass down our cultural genes while being part of the process of globalization?

The problem is they are trying to meet the future by doing what they did in the past. We believe in "hard work-do well-college-job", but our children no longer believe in that model.

Thus, we have to think differently about human capacity. And we have to also realize that most great learning happens in groups and collaboration is the stuff of growth.

Watch this insightful video which explains the above further.

RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms

The existing Prussian education system is purely focused on producing batch of "drones" to fill up the economic and social gaps in the society to serve some specific purposes for the privileged minority, rather than to meet the purposes of the individuals themselves.

It's time to be mindful of the kind of education that goes through the minds of our children.