'Education, Education, Education' with Richard Gerver at the London Business Forum
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What's the most important goal of an education system? For too many people, Richard Gerver told the London Business Forum (LBF), it's examination -- the linear, simplistic, industrial method of sorting people into different pigeonholes, based on how much information they can retain and reproduce at will. Yet the global economy is now entering a phase in which so-called "soft skills" are becoming hard currency. We should be educating our kids in a way that maximises their creative potential, when instead we're crushing the imagination out of them from the age of five.
"I am going to make you sit a test," said Gerver to the LBF. At this, a soft groan passed around the room, each of us fretting that our ignorance might be exposed. Gerver is the progenitor of a teaching method that won worldwide acclaim through UNESCO. Suddenly, we were struggling to recall all the facts we could from our childhood, amid the foggy memories of pointless, soperific, uninspiring lessons...
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True that!
boulaajaj 5 months ago
A real insight into the need for the education system to understand and interpret the needs of young people and how important it is to guide young people in the direction that best develops and encourages their particular talent. Very impressive!
melstu 3 years ago
wow...very powerful stuff!
rick4805 3 years ago