Raising a generation - Challenges and Solutions
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This document discusses challenges in education and proposes solutions. It notes that the current education system aims to create obedient slaves rather than nurture critical thinking. Four threats to current teaching models are outlined: jobs becoming more technical, robotics/AI replacing humans, efficiency reducing jobs, and free knowledge online. It argues education must develop strong values, curiosity, autonomy, social conscience and belief in justice. A new approach is needed where teachers demonstrate values, challenge students to solve problems, and empower creativity rather than just imparting facts. The focus should shift from rewarding right answers to encouraging questioning and innovation.
Raising a generation - Challenges and Solutions
- 1. Raising a generation Challenges & Solutions
- 2. Miss a beat and you lose a generation Ad line for cigarette sales
- 3. Think of your Role Model 1. For how many of you is it a parent or a teacher? 2. What about your Role Model, inspires you? 3. What would your children / students say if I were to ask them the same question? 3 The challenge is to inspire those who we have the maximum facetime with
- 4. Hyderabad Public School, Established 1919
- 7. Those who plan Harrow 1572 by Royal Charter, Queen Elizabeth I Eton 1440 by Royal Charter King Henry VI Jawaharlal Nehru, Lord Byron, Sir Winston Churchill 6 British Prime Ministers Sir Warren Hastings, Marmaduke Pickthall Lord Cornwallis, Charles Rolls, Rolls-Royce 19 British Prime Ministers, Several British Royals, Douglas Hurd, Sir Dominic Cadbury 7 27 British Prime Ministers alone
- 8. Only 3 – essentials 1. Values 2. Literacy 3. Numeracy Everything else they can learn on their own
- 9. When we have a single point of reference for success i.e. making money, we create a culture of banditry.
- 10. Our population demographic 1. 526 million under the age of 25 2. 272 million between the ages of 10-19 3. Youngest population in the world for the next 30 – 40 years 4. Can become the ‘workforce’ for the world, if… Potential for success or disaster
- 12. 4 – major threats 1. Work will get more technical & machine based 2. Robotics, AI, Neural networks, algorithms 3. Production efficiency = Fewer jobs for humans 4. Knowledge is available, free of cost Teaching as we know it, will be one of the first jobs to disappear
- 13. What does it mean? 1. Education as we know it will become redundant 2. Machine learning will automate most jobs 3. “With economic development, a higher proportion of knowledge becomes embodied in machines. This means that the economy- wide productivity increases despite individual workers having less understanding of what they do than their counterparts in the past. 4. E.g. Most shop assistants in the West, can’t add or multiply
- 14. Do we need teachers at all? 1. Any teacher who can be replaced by a machine, will be 2. All technology and fact courses will be automated 3. Google and other search engines will make information easily accessible to anyone 4. Open source education, Salman Khan Academy and others will teach anything that anyone wants to learn Yes, because no machine can teach responsibility, compassion, courage and autonomy No machine can teach values
- 15. When was the last time you saw outrage, angst or even concern about poverty, tobacco, drugs or economic disparity in our national media? Of course, you know why!!
- 16. Are we prepared for this? What do we need and what do we have?
- 17. Education must produce 1. Strong Values (Principles) and Ethics (Code of Conduct) 2. Curiosity (ask questions) and Imagination (find answers) 3. Autonomy, Ownership, Responsibility, Accountability 4. Service Focus, Social Conscience, Compassion, Kindness 5. A fundamental belief in Justice & Human dignity We must teach them to win in a world that we know nothing about
- 18. What’s this place? 1. Gate shuts when you enter 2. Can’t do anything by yourself 3. Your opinion doesn’t matter 4. You are never consulted about anything important 5. Bells ring : You obey 6. Yours not to question, ‘Why?’ 7. You must ask permission even to go to the toilet 8. You are punished, when someone else fails 9. Cardinal virtue: Unquestioning obedience 10. Cardinal sin: Dissent Total absence of autonomy and accountability
- 19. Our present system 1. Delays maturity instead of developing it 2. Promotes dependence on authority and rewards obedience & conformity, above all else 3. Denies autonomy and promotes irresponsibility 4. Distorts reality about success and failure 5. Calls memorizing and regurgitation; Passing Exams Ask, ‘What must a student do to ace a test?’
- 21. If a system is to be judged by its results, what should we say about our education system looking at its result – our society?
- 22. The Tragedy Is that our system is highly successful
- 23. If you want to be successful you must respect one rule: Never lie to yourself. ~ Paulo Coelho
- 25. What won’t work 1. Our experience 2. Our solutions Get used to the shock
- 27. First priority Demonstrate Values Because people listen with their eyes
- 28. Why Values? 1. Values 1. Inspire and motivate 2. Sustain us through hardship 3. Provide a sense of purpose 4. Create resilience to rise from failure 5. Enhance self esteem and morality “Values drive behavior; Behavior drives results”
- 29. Integrity Integrity is one of several paths - But it’s the only one on which you will never be lost
- 30. First Lesson Teach kindness Children listen with their eyes
- 31. Education is not the accumulation of random bits of information, no matter how complex.
- 32. What is a right answer? 1. How many of you reward children for answering questions in a way that you never thought of yourself? 2. How many of you punish children for thinking differently from the approved way? 3. How many of you encourage children to ask questions other than for clarity? Do you give prizes for ‘Best Question’?
- 33. Change the approach 1. Teaching how to those who understand why 2. Add value to what they can learn on their own 3. Challenge them to solve problems 4. Empower innovation and creativity 5. Teach them the tools to succeed Connect dots – not collect dots
- 34. Ask the child 1. What would happen if YOU were no longer her teacher? 2. What would be lost to the child if YOU were not teaching that subject? 3. What is your personal key contribution to the child’s education? What difference do You make?
- 35. Ask the child
- 36. I will not allow what is not in my control to prevent me from doing what is, in my control.
Editor's Notes
- #13: Pepsi Foods & Bikaneri Bhujia in Rajasthan- issue of re-training Village youth unemployable and ready for crime
- #14: https://medium.com/the-polymath-project/rethinking-education-c8754b3d77b4
- #18: Ethics refers to the guidelines for conduct, that address question about morality. Value is defined as the principles and ideals, which helps them in making the judgement of what is more important. Ethics is a system of moral principles. In contrast to values, which is the stimuli of our thinking.
- #19: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Charge of the Light Brigade; written after Tennyson read an account of a battle during the Crimean War, the poem celebrates the patriotism of the many brave English soldiers who died in the 1854 conflict.
- #20: Distorts reality about success and failure: If teacher says it’s okay, it is okay