FTC Holiday Gift Guide 2016 v3 compressed

morning, new employee, here’s your
“Good
and your business cards. We have a
desk
tomorrow - could I please get all
meeting
latin verbs conjugated by then?“ said
these
boss ever. Yet our kids sweat and toil over
no
structures and conjugations of a
learning
as much about learning for learning’s sake as the
I’m
reader, but I think it’s time we look at the
next
model of schools that we are still using.
Victorian
I’m going to hyperbolise and make
Warning,
here, but trust me, it’s for a good
generalisations
cause.
kids per class learning at the same rate -
25-35
check.
kids what they need to know and having
Telling
repeat it back to us - check.
them
and hours of memorisation so they can know
Hours
like how many degrees you have to add to
things
when we turn the kids loose on the world, they
Then
to work and they find out that no matter how
get
prepared they are - the goal posts have shifted.
well
means learning new skills all the time. It’s the
Work
who can do something with what they know,
person
than just knowing facts, is the one who is
rather
to solve the problems. It’s not just what you
going
but how you communicate it and/or amplify
know
Oh, and don’t forget, whatever you knew last year
it.
well be irrelevant next year.
may
I’m not saying scrap schools. Everyone
Obviously
a good level of general culture, and society
needs
some common shared understanding of the
needs
And I tip my hat and bow deeply to schools
world.
teachers as they work so hard to mould the next
and
into empathetic and functional adults.
generation
what I’m saying is, let’s think about the skills our
But
are going to need to practically make it in the
kids
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language no one has spoken in centuries.
world.
the Celsius scale to get the Kelvin scale - check.