Keys to a successful educational system
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Keys to a successful educational system
As I was preparing for a new article about education for weeks now, I discovered a great educationalist, Sir Ken Robinson, and decided that my next blog would be mainly inspired by one of his TED talks, because it expresses the conclusions that I came to lately in a very elegant way from a person who dedicated his entire life for this cause.
Sir Ken thinks that there are 3 principles on which human life flourishes, and they are all contradicted by the current culture of education under which most teachers have to labor and most students have to endure.
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Human beings are naturally different and diverse: Most current educational systems are based not on diversity, but on conformity. Schools are encouraged to find out what kids can do across a very narrow spectrum of achievement, usually on what we call STEM that are necessary, but not sufficient, and kids prosper best with a broad curriculum that celebrates their various talents, using parts of their minds that are otherwise unexplored.