Sugata Mitra says we are preparing our children for our past, but our opportunity today is to be preparing them for their future.
Well, first thing, bring the internet into the education system right now. Bring it in every possible way. To every question that you want to ask a learner, ask them, “Can you figure it out?” I once said jokingly in a school, in those old Victorian schools, there used to be an archway on which the school motto would be written, and it was usually something in Latin. Hic, hoc or something or the other, and it was the school’s model. I think we need to change that model. We need to change it to “figure it out”. That’s what the school should be for. That’s what learners should be encouraged to do. Go ahead, look up the internet, talk to yourselves, talk to each other and tell me the answer. You figure it out.
Why do we have to do that? Because we have no way in which our past is going to be similar to our children’s future. Currently, I think we are preparing our children for our past.
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