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  • Part 1 of the series we discuss some of the history of our schools and realize that there were even some

  • benefits to a public and standardized education

  • But there are a few cons of the current public and standardized system that are becoming more and more apparent in recent years

  • Firstly it stifles creativity the students are limited in the subject matter they can learn and the ways in which they can learn

  • Secondly a values efficiency mastery and promotes incomplete understanding of subject material the current school system operates like a factory

  • Students have a certain amount of time to get graded

  • And they're either good products or bad products the system moves students along after a certain period of time and not when they've fully mastered

  • the current subject matter in Sal Khan's book the One World schoolhouse

  • He refers to this as Swiss cheese learning

  • Students are allowed to pass on to the next year subject matter if they obtain a grade of at least 50%

  • That means there's over 50% of the material that they don't understand

  • Eventually all these holes in their learning will catch up to them, and they'll hit a point where the material stops making sense

  • The analogy Sal uses is that of a house you wouldn't build a house on week foundation

  • Would you but we're constantly doing this to our students by pushing them ahead

  • Regardless of their mastery over a topic again the current school system is like an assembly line values quantity over quality

  • Lastly curriculums are quickly becoming outdated the world is evolving so rapidly that our older institutions

  • Can't keep up if you look at the revolutions in human history from?

  • agricultural to

  • Informational you'll see that the gaps between them are getting smaller and smaller all of the great revolutions in history have also had massive changes

  • In how we educated one another except for the most recent information age

  • But we are starting to see a shift in the educational paradigm

  • Here are some of my predictions on the future of education education

  • Will likely be digital automated and highly personalized for the individual it will go at the students pace

  • And it will require students to master subject matter before moving on

  • It will also be cheaper than ever before we are already starting to see these things emerge with the birth of khanacademy educational

  • YouTube channels and an increase in quality in online courses you have sites like Udemy or Skillshare. We can learn practice skills online

  • Universities are starting to put some of their lectures and notes online

  • Some are even hosting massive open online courses also known as MOOCs soon a student's entire

  • Education will be based around a laptop and the internet with teachers being utilized on an as-needed basis education will become more meritocratic

  • Students will reward the best

  • educators with their attention and money and so educators will start to compete to be the best or to be unique as a result we'll

  • see an increase in the quality of education

  • students get the road to this type of

  • Education will be a difficult one the roots of our current system run deep the infrastructure is already there

  • Meanwhile the infrastructure for the future of education is still in its infancy

  • Online education still doesn't have the prestige and clout that traditional colleges have although this paradigm is shifting as well

  • No one's going to hire a doctor or lawyer who learned everything online

  • But they would hire a programmer graphic designer digital marketer an animator or writer who learned everything online

  • Here's the final note that I'd like to conclude on: human curiosity is very hard to kill

  • We are naturally very curious beings you can see that by analyzing little kids and seeing how they interact with the world around them

  • They're fascinated, and they want to know how it all works and fits together. This is human nature

  • We can see that a current system is starting to show its age because it's somehow

  • Miraculously putting out the flames of human curiosity in our youth. Young kids are seeing education as a chore

  • I think most of us would agree that the current system is outdated

  • And will leave many students unprepared for a rapidly changing future. For them, I already feel sad although

  • there's still lots of work to be done. I'm quite optimistic about the future of our education

  • I'm excited to see a world where we can bring back a system of education

  • that allows students to find and use their natural talents and inclinations to make the world around them a better place

  • I'm excited to see a world where students freely choose to understand the parts of the world that fascinate them

  • instead of having their natural curiosity snuffed out.

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