Education professional here. I agree a radical overhaul is needed, but this is just vague, useless postering. How do we deal with the well-financed agendas of corporations and theocrats? What kinds of accessments are warranted? What should a clasroom look like, or should it even be a room? Who or what should be doing the teaching? Where do parents fit in? What should the curriculum even be?
mainstream stuff about self-improvement are so overrated.The best investment you can make is in yourself. Books are the ultimate learning tool. Unveiling Your Hidden Potential by Bruce Thornwood helped me build discipline and separate my mindset from 90% of other people
It is a basis of which you can learn from past experience but it is certainly not the ultimate learning tool. You can only find the past in the books, neither the present nor the future. Your statement is common for popular mainstream self-help circles. Yet it is overly simplistic and context-dependent. In other words it is highly subjective and varies depending on individual circumstances. Learning is a multifaceted process that benefits from diverse methods, including experiential learning, social interactions, formal education, and multimedia resources. Different individuals have different strengths and preferred learning styles, such as visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and interpersonal. Thus, for some people, hands-on experience or interactive learning might be more effective than reading books. From educational psychology we know that active learning techniques, which engage students in the process of learning through activities and discussions, often result in better understanding and retention compared to passive learning, such as reading. Human growth and mindset changes are continuous processes. Or “The world isn't in your books and maps, it's out there.”
The reason education is the way it is is because of simplicity. We don't have enough teachers, or even people who care and have time to work with just one student. And of course it doesn't help if everyone is doing their own thing rather than screwing the bolts in at their job. I could see a system on which students can freely roam about their interests, kind of like college, but that solves the first issue we have, but not the second. It's the same reason colleges have GE, minimum unit requirements etc. It is in a way, also a business. It looks like education is outdated, to put it simply. Only the one in a million student comes around to shake up the foundation of knowledge, and the rest of us should be doing our work being nurses, engineers etc. There are no philosophers or keepers of knowledge and learning.
Steiner schools are one model. And in one Australian public school some amazing outcomes came from teaching philosophy to 7 yr olds....until the standardisation apparatchiks killed it. Leadership at the school level matters
They're not, but what are teachers supposed to do when they encounter a student whose parents are never around, or who never talk to their kids? TV and video games are also not substitutions for parenting, but all the same those working in media bear a responsibility to tell quality stories to the younger audiences.
My children left school not knowing what they were good at or where their passions lay, instead they were taken on an outdated journey of preparing them to enter a job market which has not existed for a very long time. Education should be about opening the mind not narrowing its focus to generalized ideas. The teacher sows the seeds, some will go and nurture these seeds and develop them further in their own time and thus learning more about themselves and this idea, others may just do the basics to get through school. However discussion should be the focus of schooling rather than rote learning, allowing every student to choose to explore their potential or not.
I almost fell asleep when hearing this woman. We need to make students LOVE a topic. I found working with people towards a goal, e.g. proving a new theory, making a new type of instrument, creating a new business, are what’s motivating me and others. If you want to learn about electromagnetic waves,,start with water. Let students see water waves, they are close enough to electromagnetic waves.
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I don’t like that the education system do not focus on figuring out the skills, passions and talents of each student THAT’S the real test they need to give them then help them achieve their goal by what their skills, talent, and passions are.
Exactly! There should be less boring classes kids aren't interested in, less memorizing and regurgitation and more inquiry intot the minds of the young kids and to help them find direction. Hire more student counselors and give them class time with smaller groups of students. Get kids out into the real world, get people from the community into the classrooms. There should be more focus on practical skills and knowledge of self. We shouldn't have kids who are going to college and still trying to figure things out. Help kids discover a path they are passionate about earlier.
Who is the we, and what educational system is she speaking about? I feel like the education i enjoyed was a good combination of passing on knowledge and challenging creative and out of the box thinking. (Dutch standard education, VWO)
I'm a HS shop teacher, they know exactly why they need to pick up what I'm putting down. The main thing I try to convey is to step away from future oriented goals and cultivate purpose. It's not what you do but how you do it.
This is very vague, and much of the proposed interaction doesn't seem that it would be easily within the control of an educator. Even in a brief synopsis, it is possible to provide a practical example to illustrate.
@@johnp.w.hudson7192 I'm not disagreeing, I'm saying it's not clear from the discussion how it is to be accomplished. If you are doing it, perhaps you could give some examples.
@@crawkn thanks for your thoughtful reply! First, change the definition of learning to “A change in performance as a result of influence”. I know that this doesn’t seem semantically different than “a change in behaviour as a result of experience” but if you influence learners in ways that enhances their thinking, it is different than feeding them curricula. I teach “how to learn” as a more important pursuit than “what to know”. Of course ‘what to know’ is important, it’s just that I’d rather kids become Lamborghini learners than Chevrolet learners, if I can mangle a metaphor for you. Please read my book “Transformative Education for the Second Renaissance” (2019) John P.W. Hudson Information Age publishing. It lays the groundwork for the direction education should be heading. Thanks!
@@johnp.w.hudson7192 thanks I appreciate your reply, and it is philosophically sound in concept. But to be practically applied, it requires mechanisms and specific plans. I'm not likely to have time to read your book, so if it contains a real-world example of implementation, perhaps you could share it. Generally speaking, it's most effective to provide concise information in a comment or reply, since reading assignments are unlikely to be completed.
@@crawknyeah, as a teacher it is something that bothers me a lot. They want us to teach differently and redefine what learning is, but when I am in front of my students what does that really mean? Just give me ONE real life applicable example that doesn’t imply a money investment (because I’ll never have those kinds of resources). I’ve laboured days and weeks to prepare what most would deem a engaging learning activity and then have half my class do absolutely nothing. I don’t know in what kind of utopia these «educational scholars » think we live in but in my public education school where integration is the norm and parent implication is almost inexistant it is not feasible. So yeah, I’ll do what I have to, giving it 110%.
the reason why the eduction cares more about the answers rather than thinking, or perfer the skills over why we needed them, because the education is about to create more operators in the producction line, not human development. At least in the past. School bells are basically just factory break bells, from what I read.
That was back when it was more noble sadly. Schools have become breeding grounds for grief studies, they are taught to hate. Schools have become nanny states, taking over family values and replacing them with state values. Schools have become kidnappers, they have become no man's lands to be attacked by angry armed students. In the past, they were basically training and conditioning for future work. Now they are taught to be unpaid, victimized protesters. It used to be so much better.
She means well but uses a kind of a fallacious logic. On one hand you should integrate learning with its real world applications, on the other they should minimize being assessed by 3rd parties whose judgement is based on the knowledge of how that real world works 🤷♂ Though to be fair the video is vague as hell so who knows what'd be her recommendations. Standardized tests aren't really great for any given individual but they're based on reasonable baselines and expectations.
@@Gigusx BT videos are purposely vague. One purpose of education is to prepare children for the REAL world. Universities and colleges want to be able to assess a potential student's capacity. Employers expect workers to reach standards. They also expect employess to accept performance-enchancing criticism. Nations need an appropriately-educated workforce. Merit matters.
Redesigning education is such an important conversation. The way we learn needs to evolve with the times, and personally, I found it exciting about new approaches that could better prepare us for the future
What matters is what you learn on your own. Not what is hammered into your brain by what others believe you should learn and know. Why do you think the term "Public Scrools" is so wide spread?
The education system is designed to prep you for college. College is to prep you for 30 years of work. If you can successfully do 4 years of college then yes, you can do 30 years of work. To get everyone in the community on board to hug every kid and make life better is a parents job not a communitys job. Wvery kid should not get a trophy and yes, some kids need to go to a more culture college because they are the future leaders. Like Harvard.
It is true. The education system follows the design for career preparation. I also agree that emotional support starts in the home (or rather, a parent doing a good job in providing it than reliance on society). However, it is more complicated and individualistic. Parents also have responsibilities that conflict with that...and society enabled it for decades. We could discuss abstinence or preventive care for parents unready for the responsibility. We could recognize that a rise in workers with secure jobs can impact society. The problem is that dysfunctional families exist. Parents may have different circumstances that may need familial support. But what if there are no family members that can provide what a child needs. If teachers and educators are connected to specialties, would it mean to cultivate a safe environment for children so they have specific areas they are interested in? I am actually curious with what you think.
I wish I knew this seemingly bad educational experience was to help condition us for the real working world where we are needed to conform in a unmanaged and predictable way to a large organization that is in competition with international powers that are a military threat to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Breaks and recess are times one can unconform... ir someday risk work as self employed and see how you do.
I agree that the educational system has to be improved (and even "re-designed"), but I don't agree when we convey that the system is practically useless. After all, with its deficiencies, it's worked until now, and we've done pretty well. One can argue that we've come along this far despite it, but it'd be hard to prove that. Knowledge is built on previous knowledge, and adapting every school to match all individual skills and talents is not feasible. I admit, I agree when she suggested that schools should "have space" to develop these individualities, but "having space" is not the same as "re-design" a whole educational system.
This sounds like a really great idea, but educating the masses is problematic. Since you’re using public funds, you have to be accountable to taxpayers. Accountability comes in the form of showing that the kids are making progress, which is some type of standardized test. if nothing else, their education can be a baseline for creative, thinking, and learning
Educating the masses as it's currently done is actually the bigger, deeper problem. Human development that enables and empowers is progress in and of itself. The standard model is not helpful, at any scale, and really, what does current accountability in schooling systems actually achieve? The average taxpayer or government doesn't have a clue.
I am going to be honest, I did not like or agree with most what was said. She and others want transformation in the education system but it is too radical. The education system can always improve but to ask let’s just change everything instead of making slight but gradual changes to improve. Also anyone making an argument for anything knows the section of the argument called the call to action to not leave your reader/listener left in a space of so what is next. All that fancy talk it is dynamic, isn’t everything dynamic and relationship and community based isn’t it already that. More and more there is this shift in communication at large to speak so conceptional that it really is like speaking out clouds it is foggy and unclear. The other day I was listening to a group discussing how they were planning a presentation and the leader speaking so conceptual then the other person so confused is asking can you give me and example. She was like well she could not give an example of all the conceptual wording she put. Here we see videos like these so conceptual.
It takes a village. Say it simple. She strains in emphasizing her esoteric nuances using big complex words, yet the idea is so simple. “It takes a village to raise kids.” Duhh.
The book "The Friendly Orange Glow" was about the PLATO system, which was an early Computer Aided Education system, developed in the aftermath of Sputnik. One of the anecdotes in the book was about a nursing student who was flunking out of the nursing program. The way the education was presented just wasn't "working" for her. They quickly built out some tutorial systems on PLATO which completely turned it around. She ended up graduating and having a solid career afterwards. Not everyone learns the same way. Our education system, and its methods, can't expect to be a "one size fits all" solution. For many of the students in the nursing program, the existing curriculum was working just fine. But some people, though, a more interactive, computer-guided methodology was the better way.
Education is clearly a business like anything else in todays day & age. Reframing it won't happen anytime soon. Only Nordic skools have a different education systems that promotes critical thinking in a way that has very less academic pressure & creative thinking skills.
I am sorry but this Professor in Education should give a CLEAR and DIRECT explanation what is/are wrong with current education system that resulted in the wrongs we are seeing in our students' LEARNING.
It's the one size fits all that's a problem. Different people are different. When educators come up with brilliant new things they need to small scale test it and make it optional instead of suddenly, "New way, everybody do this." No. Never everybody. How about a menu?
Ok so you are explaining a new way to implement a teaching so that children can be able to learn in a way that benefits them and their ideas to get it manifested in life sooo how you going to make that happen? Because talk is cheap
Respectfully, you expect her to think for you when you are a part of the problem? She pointed out and articulated a problem because she thought about the dynamic and sees the issue; how the people solve it is a task for the people and their observations alone. If you expect people to just conjure up solutions to our societies' dynamic issues you did not even have the energy or mental capacity to notice, while the majority (like you) sits on their sore ass and do nothing but complain about needing solutions (as opposed to eyes and mind to see the problem) to people who are trying to co-operate with the majority is the functionalistic aspects as to why society is failing.
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Part of the true path of education is the constant reassessing and redefining of what education is. It's more deeply philosophical than our current processes allow for.
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My problem today, is that we are teaching our young girls that the only thing that is important is sexuality. I long for the day when girls are raised to be anything they want to be and that being sexually attractive isn't just the way you dress. What do you really want to attract, a partner that only sees you as a partner in bed, or a partner that sees you as an equal in life?
I admire your nuanced perspective. I feel their upbringing alone wouldn't be the remedy to this situation but a lot of factors that leads to a certain type of behavior should be considered and dealt with appropriately.
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This rings true. What’s the need of the hour is individualised attention and nurture in a communal space. You cannot churn it out like a factory. The variety of online courses are helpful in this regard - ability to suit your own goals and development. What results is catering to a variety of people and disciplines. Educational systems fail when they take a one size fits all approach. This could be due to lack of understanding or funding. And the measurement of success also needs a rethink.
