After a long time without publishing in English, I would like to bring about a polemic subject: The current system of education. For that reason, and to support my arguments I am also publishing here an enlightening video entitled: " Changing Education Paradigms" from Sir Ken Robinson. He is a influential speaker and author on creativity, innovation and education. Hope you like it and leave your comments bellow. What do you think? lets make this debate go around.
I have been thinking
about this subject for a long time, since I was in secondary school to be
precise. Now, when I am about to graduate in university and receive my diploma,
becoming finally ready for the professional world, a bunch of questions keep bugging
me. Is education a valid thing? Is it a guarantee that you will have a job? Or
it is just chatter? These are some the doubts I have about the current system
of education.
I would like to start
off this debate by stating that throughout all these years I have been educated
in school and consequently university, I have never doubted the power of a
diploma as I do now. Perhaps my concern is just a small fag from all these
years seating on a school bench, or just a concern rose from exalted
conversations with friends. But, the matter of the fact is: I am not sure if I
am correctly prepared for my upcoming professional career. Of course I am not
rejecting that without a diploma of higher education you will never climb that
far in the career ladder, I am just bashing at another angle.
What I am questioning
here is not the value of having graduated from university and leave the school
bench for a while. Instead, I am suggesting a drastic reform in the education
pattern. I then agree with Sir Ken Robinson in this video, the problem relies
on how we have been taught. The method of education needs to be changed, the
structure of teaching and educating needs to be fine tuned in order to form a
creative professional, capable of anything, no matter in which environment that
professional is being put into.
One simple example
given in the video is the way that students are organized. The proposed system
divide people by ages, what does not necessarily mean that an individual who
has 8 or 9 years old have to behave like one in his age. That is why we have gifted
children as we also have children with a mental deficit. In this way, age does
not signify a line of thought and education compatible with a certain year in
school. The individual is much more important in this case. It is imperative to
emphasize here the talents that can be developed, no matter what year someone
has achieved in school.
Another element worth
noticing here is the words DON’T or CAN’T said by a teacher. Who said that
someone cannot perform a certain action? Who established that convention? This
constant enforcement is certainly something that can definitely shrink any
person’s mind and/or creativity. Additionally, when that individual comes to
the end of its secondary school he begins to question if all that was valid; if
his basic education was enough to move him to next level.
In conclusion, I need
to make clear that I do not regret going to university or been to school in my
early ages of life. What I want to bring to the surface is the constant method
employed by educators all over the world to educate millions of children. It is
a claim for all governments to care more about the future, to care more about
what kind of professionals’ society is forming? It is not about being polite or
becoming academics, but it is about creativity and personal care. Educators
need to let that creativity that many times was just fenced inside a gifted
child flourish increasingly more. Governments also must let those educators do
that way. This is for sure a subject that is not ending here, many more posts
are needed, much more people are necessary to gather to support that change.
Therefore, if each of us do not understand that and change it, the future will
not be as bright as it could be.
That's it for today people. Hope you have liked it and leave your thoughts for us bellow. Thanks for your support in advance and stay tuned for more on this subject. See you later!
