Education: best or worst thing ever?
Recently, there has been a lot of controversy regarding our societies current education method. Some hail it as if there was no other thing that was better that it, others think about it as complete garbage. Whatever your opinion about this subject is, we'll discuss why it is so hated worldwide.
So, every people who hates our education method have a very decent point in their advantage, saying that, well, that schools can't predict the future. The main problem in education, according to most people, is that we are currently teaching students to work in 2017, while in 2021, for example, jobs might need completely different things that had to be taught today, and we don't. Of course, they are not getting mad with schools because they want them to predict the future, what their solution is, it's to reinvent our way of teaching. Today, we give students exact instructions, "do this, in this place, in this way, in this time". However, what if, instead of treating kids like robots, we let them develop their own way of making it, and let them figure out how to, developing skills such as creativity and problem solving. This should be the way to teach, since in most if not all of the jobs, you need to figure out how to make what you are told, with no instructions. This method of teaching in a "creative" way was first supposed by Isaac Asimov, and people still believe it can be achieved. In my personal opinion, I think that this can and will be achieved, we just need to put our head around it. At first look the problem might seem easy to resolve, but it isn't. We need to give effort and proposal to our goals, and this is a perfect example.
So, every people who hates our education method have a very decent point in their advantage, saying that, well, that schools can't predict the future. The main problem in education, according to most people, is that we are currently teaching students to work in 2017, while in 2021, for example, jobs might need completely different things that had to be taught today, and we don't. Of course, they are not getting mad with schools because they want them to predict the future, what their solution is, it's to reinvent our way of teaching. Today, we give students exact instructions, "do this, in this place, in this way, in this time". However, what if, instead of treating kids like robots, we let them develop their own way of making it, and let them figure out how to, developing skills such as creativity and problem solving. This should be the way to teach, since in most if not all of the jobs, you need to figure out how to make what you are told, with no instructions. This method of teaching in a "creative" way was first supposed by Isaac Asimov, and people still believe it can be achieved. In my personal opinion, I think that this can and will be achieved, we just need to put our head around it. At first look the problem might seem easy to resolve, but it isn't. We need to give effort and proposal to our goals, and this is a perfect example.
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