“It is our children’s creativity that is most valuable. 60% of today’s jobs will not be needed in the near future, and 65% of today’s grade school kids will end up at jobs that haven’t been invented yet (US Department of Labor, Future work). The old jobs are being replaced by automation, algorithms and robots, however, the jobs not being replaced are those that computers are not good at, the ones that require human creativity, passion and curiosity to figure out novel solutions. Unfortunately, the traditional educational model, with its standardization and broadly issued textbooks is teaching the exact opposite, which was fine for the first 100 years of its operation, but now it’s obsolete. Our outdated and slow to move educational systems are not adapting quickly enough to empower our children in this new world, especially those most under-served children in poverty and areas of inadequate support. Our children are not being adequately prepared for the world they will be growing up in. We only need to look at the number of graduates not able to find work -even those apparently well educated- to see the beginnings of this (53.6% of bachelor’s degree-holders under the age of 25 are jobless or underemployed: US department of Labor). We need an educational model that, from an early age, fosters their curiosity, their creativity, their entrepreneurial skills and passions. An educational model that operates like the real world and teaches through doing, through sharing and through exploring, an educational model where everyone is both a learner and a teacher and learning is a continual, lifelong and empowering process.”
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