Let’s examine the current model of providing education, which involves numerous challenges:
- Insufficient schools, teachers, and staff to educate everyone, constantly lagging behind.
- The current education system tries to fit everyone into a one-size-fits-all model instead of recognizing each individual’s unique potential. If each child pursued their innate passion, society would achieve a perfect balance.
- A divide between the privileged and underprivileged is created due to the money and time needed for education.
- Children are not taught to think independently but are graded on how well they repeat existing knowledge.
- Despite many years of schooling, students often lack practical skills.
- Students spend years learning a profession after 10-12 years of basic education.
- The current system stifles creativity and forces children to conform to an outdated model of winners and losers, theoretical knowledge versus practical application, and feelings of inadequacy.
- Much of the education received is forgotten because it is never applied or used.
- Students often lack confidence, excelling in one or two subjects but being told they are not good in others.
- The system is expensive to maintain, and early leavers have little value, while those who complete it often lack confidence and practical skills.
- Children become jacks of all trades but masters of none, often forgetting what they learned due to lack of application, resulting in wasted education.
What is the school of the future?
- In the school of the future, there are no teachers. Children from all grade levels teach each other, open to both children and adults. Curriculums provide a mental map, but each learner's journey is self-directed. Mentors offer advice on where to start, answer questions, and provide practical job skills.
- Children follow their passion, pursuing what they want to learn, creating a balanced society. Each person’s different passions contribute to societal balance, and the school leverages individual passion.
- Students determine their own curriculum, focusing on mastering one or two subjects at a time.
- Mastering their first subject builds confidence, encouraging students to tackle new subjects with the same mastery.
- Because learning is passion-driven, mastery comes naturally and effortlessly, providing a skill that allows students to earn a living.
- This approach allows students to graduate quickly as masters in their craft, taking pride in their expertise.
- Money flows effortlessly to these students because they master and enjoy their work, having harnessed a passion.
- The school becomes a knowledge-sharing environment where children, students, and adults freely exchange knowledge. Each field has a curriculum guide with videos and tutorials. However, students are responsible for updating and sharing curriculum content with like-minded students locally and globally.
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