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is reforming
public education for two reasons for it
the first one is economic people trying to fit workout
how do we
educating
our children to take their place in the economy is the twenty first century how
do we do that
in the recount anticipate what economy will look like at the end of next week
as the recent turmoil
how do we do that
the second-lowest cultural
every country on earth on earth is trying to figure out how do we
educate our children so they have a sense of cultural identity and
so that we can pass on the cultural genes of art
communities
while being part of the process of globalization happy
square that circle
the problem is that trying
to meet the future
by doing what they did in the past
and on the way that alienating
millions of kids who don't see any
purpose in going to school
when we went to school
we work and there was story which is if you work hard and did well
got a college degree you would have a job
optics don't believe that
and the right not to bother
you're better having particularly the not it's not a guarantee anymore
a particular not if the with
marginalize has mostly things that you think are important about yourself
but some people say we have to raise families if this is a breakthrough
button ready to get such we should
why would you like them
internet
hyped haven't come across an argument that the safety of learning
but raisin and of course we should racing
the problem is that the current system education was designed
and conceived
unstructured four different
it was conceived
in the intellectual
culture
of the enlightenment
and in the economic circumstances of the industrial revolution
before the myth of the nineteen century there were no systems of public
education
not really a minute ago did you get to my jesuit sooner if if you have the
money
but public education payed for from taxation
compulsory to everybody in three at the point of delivery i was a revolutionary
idea
and many people
objected to they said that not possible
for many street kids working class georgia benefits from public education
very capable of learning to read and write and why we spending time on this
has also built into the whole series of
uh... assumptions about social structuring capacity it was driven by an
economic impact of all the time
but running right through it
was an intellectual
model of the mind
which was essentially unlike mindy of intelligence
the real intelligence consists in the scholastic assessment opera deductive
reasoning
on the knowledge of the classics originate
what we come to think of as academic
ability
and this is deep in the gene
a public education at the ready to types of people academic a non-factor demic
small people are not smart people
on the contents of that is that many brilliant people think they're not
because they've been judged against this particular view of the month
so we have a tenth of us
economic an intellectual
and mike
this model
has caused chaos
and many people's minds it's been great for some dripping people benefited
wonderfully from it
but most people
instead accepted this
this is the modern academic and its as myspace
at its best fictitious
this is the play golf eighty h d
this is a map of the concerns that lady h_d_
in america or prescriptions
for a p_h_d_
don't mistake me i don't mean to say
there was no such thing
as attention deficit disorder
i'm not qualified to serve the risk such a thing
i know the great majority of psychologists and children pediatrician
think there is such a thing
but still amount of disco debate
but i do know for a fact
is it's not an epidemic
these kids are being medicated
as routinely as we have apostles taken it
and on the same
whimsical bases and for the same reason medical
all children are living in the most intense is stimulating period in the
history of the s
that being besieged with information
upholstered tension
every platform computers
from my iphone some advertise golden's from hollister television channels
and what penalizing them out to getting distracted
from what
boring stuff
at school
for the most part
it seems we cannot occurrences totally but this is a dat has risen in parallel
with the growth of standardized testing
these kids are being given birth to end and at all in all manner of things
often quite then just rugs
to get them focused in combat
but according to this
attention deficit order
increases as you travel east across the country
people start losing interest in oklahoma
here
they can hardly think straight in arkansas the completely
him amber a separate reasons for that i believe the
it's a fictitious
epidemic
if you think it's the arts
another instance exclusivity arts i think it's also true science
elements for them
i said i walked into the because they all of the victims of this mentality
currently
the alts
especially address
beyond all
aesthetic
experience
anesthetic expenses one which or senses
all operating that peak
when your present in the current moment
when your resonating with the excitement of this thing that your
experiencing
when you are fully alive
and anesthetic is when you shake your senses off
and get yourself to what's happening
and a lot of these drugs
we're getting octial mtr education
bike and it's surprising them
and i think we should begin exact opposite we shouldn't be previously we
should be waking them up
to what they have inside themselves
but the model analysis
it's finally we have
that's just a magician that is modeled
the interests and extremism
and in the image of it
i could be further examples
stores also pretty much organize contract reminds upbringing that
walls separatism it is
specialized in two separate subjects
uh... we selected children by batches
you know we put them through the system by age group
why do we do that
no why is that this assumption
that the most important thing kids have in common is helpful dale
you know it's like the most important about was that they could manufacture
well i know kids were much better than other kids in the same age in different
disciplines
or different times the day
all bets in smaller groups in the mountains
orton basil to be alone
if you're interested in modern london you don't starkness production line
mentality
it's essentially bob conformity in increasing its about that as you look at
this time last testing and
standardized curricula
and it's about time two thousand shin
i believe we're going to help the situation
that's what i mean about changing the paradigm
there's a great said even recently of divergent thinking
to discover the answer divergent thinking this is the same thing
as creativity
i define prejudiced if the process of having a ritual ideas that have fun
divergent thinking isn't a synonym
but its fate
and essential
capacity to creativity
it's the ability to see lots of possible answers
took action
what's a possibly interpreting the question
to think
whatever devoted public all actually
to think not just in loophole
converge in place
two-seat multiple answers not one
so i mean a test of this i mean one kind of product sample of the people might be
asked to say
how many uses can you think all four paper clip
part of routine questions
most of my complete ten or fifteen
people go to this might come with two hundred
and they do that by saying whoa put the paper clip between the foot tall in the
night of the film about
and i'd like to have to be a paper clip as we know jim none
now the test is like a them to fifteen hundred people it's been a book called
breakpoints beyond
and on the critical of the test if you scored above a certain level
you'd be considered to be a genius of divergent thinking
so my question to his walk
percentage of
the people tested of the fifteen hundred
saudi genius level for divergent thinking
i need to one more thing about them
these work kindergarten children
what percentage of genius apple
making a bet
ninety percent
now the thing about this wasn't so long to juvenile study
so they've been test at the same children
five years later
ages eight to ten what you think
they retested system again
five years later ages
thirteen to fifteen
defensive ten different
here
his tells an interesting story
because you can imagine a going away
you start off not being very good but you get better to get older
but the shows two things one is we all have this capacity
and to it mostly deteriorates
how often this happens these kids as the grown-up
but one of the most important things onto mine convinces the buy now they've
become educated
they know the spent ten years of school being told as one insights at the back
and don't look
fondled copy
because that's cheating
then outside schools that's called collaboration
this is an because teachers want it this way
it just because it happens that way
it's because it's been the gene pool of education
after think differently about him capacity
back to get over disposed conception of of academic non-academic
theoretical
vacation or
and see if what it is then
second after recognize that most great learning happens in groups collaboration
is the stuff of growth
if you've got a nice people in separate them in judge them separately
former kind of disjunction between them and then that to learning environment
of flatly
it's crucial it about the culture
of our institutions the habits of the institution
and the habitats
that they occupy