picture this
an ancient building an ancient Rome in
the 4th Century BC you're surrounded by
chairs books are spilling off the
shelves and your phone is placed neatly
next to your roll of paper just waiting
to be used
your teachers were rattling of math
equations invented by your mom's from
Pythagoras and all you can think about
is what you're going to do when you
finish class
now back to present day reality and
while all of our calls have been
replaced by laptops this scenario
doesn't sound completely different to
what we have or will experience at some
point during our schooling careers
from the time we are toddlers we enter
the world of education and for the next
18 to 22 years from school to University
we grow up learn and involve within this
environment yet this environment does
not seem to change with us
many education systems as we know them
are incredibly traditional institutions
with minimal open-mindedness and
Incredibly strict and rigid curriculums
so by no means am I saying learning
about the Pythagorean theorem is
irrelevant or unhelpful but rather I
would like to propose that education
systems need to change for the times in
order to stimulate students growth
mindset and overall ability to learn
if this occurs we won't only produce
individuals for the developed intellect
but more than that and all those who
pass through the education system will
prove to be creative thinkers problem
solvers and Enlightenment curious minds
when looking at this topic there are
three Core Concepts I want to discuss
firstly to explore the ways in which the
education system needs to change and
prepares for what a dynamic future has
to offer secondly to propose how new
ideas and Global events need to be
incorporated into the curriculum and
lastly to sound a warning that the lack
of progression in school system has
effective intake in traditional schools
and will indisputedly continue to do so
education assistants should educate not
teach from the time we enter a classroom
we are conditioned to jump onto the
hamster wheel of continuously moving
towards the next thing whether in
addition to multiplication punctuation
to essay writing or World certain AP
World History and while finding the flow
of learning and progress and
continuously progressing is important
either and progress is important
I believe the education the meaning of
education is always be growing always be
learning and always be asking questions
and over time the meaning of education
has become lost and nowadays children
intend school to just cross the Box
school has become a caregiving place for
working parents and a chore that
children and teenagers are dragging
themselves through just to move on to
University and thereafter the world of
work and while this natural cycle of
life is what it is I release School
needs to be a place where students go to
expand their minds not simply their
knowledge
when we can learn lessons from historic
events and not just historical facts so
if we can be inspired to create history
ourselves
as the future generation we have an
incredibly important role to play to
ensure that future Generations are
educated rather as a choice than a
requirement
our knowledge sources are continuously
changing after all
over the past months the use of the
artificial intelligence website has
exploded many argue that this phenomenon
could have truly threatened the
education system but those who are
willing to be open-minded should embrace
them as a learning tool to equip
students to distill a corpus of
knowledge at a rapid rate and in half
the way we think about the world
and Educators and teachers accept this
rather than discourage it their overall
contribution to their children's to
their children's learning Journeys will
be much more imaginative and less
predictable
teaches me to learn to make to learn
need to understand need to learn to
understand and make it work for them not
against them because after artificial
intelligence is not for pissing teachers
it's enriching them
one of the most famous gender equality
activists and the late U.S approved
Justice Ruth Bailey against Vogue once
said the court not ought not to be
affected by the weather of the day but
will be by the climate of the era and I
believe education assistants need to do
justice reflect the climate of the era
education systems need to be
relentlessly relevant
growing up in present-day Society one of
the most important skills and areas of
knowledge is understanding and
acknowledging Global Advance and new
Innovations
Global events are Dynamic influential
and persuasive in impacts and I believe
that all schools should make a
compulsory to take at least one class
that stimulates discussion and debate
regarding what is happening in the world
around us
classes ask for teachers to
crosses our school uses as electives
such as anyone public speaking and
Global issues are some of the best
classes students can take in order to
learn core skills by people situations
and what is happening around us that
doesn't revolve around us
I found that the gaps in the learning I
have found that the gaps within the
education system stems from the
restrictiveness and lack of diversity
within the curriculum which is that many
students to drop out
education systems tend to refer to these
individuals as anti-establishment
apple found that Steve Jobs is perhaps
one of the most well-known College
dropouts jobs is ideas and Imagination
influence one of the most one of the
most successful and impactful technology
and invasions of the modern era
I
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think of the modern era
I believe and by no means am I promoting
dropping out of college or university
actually quite the opposite I'm a huge
advocate for education but education
systems where the light of the Steve
Jobs of this world are supported and
encouraged by then by the world of by
the environment that they are in
and then that the place there and did
not come from this golf course
unnecessary Conformity and rigid mindset
if education systems stimulate train and
inspire all students we will find ways
to we will find ways to combat worldwide
problems while using the skills we have
learned in math science English and
history
it's a case of adapt or dying
unlike many traditional schools AI City
and other international schools like us
have already become supporting and
encouraging the exploration of personal
ideas and beliefs as well as the
attendance of thought-provoking classes
all in the hopes to help us find our
passions and help us craft a vision of
how we will impact humanity and our
planet constructively
there's been recently there's been a
huge influx within international schools
and I believe this is a result of the
diverse curriculum diversity of people
and wide ranging perspectives one can
find within this environment
as someone who went to an all girls
traditional South African school for 12
years before moving to AIC I can
comfortably say that the two
environments are completely different
and contrasting as someone who loves
project-based collaborative and
thought-provoking work I find AIC aict
to be a fresh act and a step in the
right direction to make sure that we are
pursuing education in this Democratic
not Victoria way
however I do believe schools need to
radiate a belief of learning for growth
and impact rather than for diploma
because this will cause
mindset with a shift within all students
in this sort of environment my peers are
around the world and I was shift to be
intrinsically motivated for continuously
true learning Improvement and personal
growth now purely to Excel and Achieve
Mastery in our own talents and passions
but to use these in creative and
imaginative ways to enrich life before
so after everything I've said that there
are just three things you take away here
they are first educate don't teach
ignite learning for growth and
contribution Embrace technology and AI
tools as compelling tools to enhance
learning not replace it remain
relentlessly relevant include vulnerable
events and Innovations so that students
of all ages and backgrounds are inspired
to combat these worldwide issues and
find Solutions and even preventions to
make our world much more peaceful and
respectful and lastly bubbles Never Last
we need all schools where the
traditional International and modern to
burst out their restrictive spaces and
pursue and push critical thinking as
well as drastically diversify the
curriculum so if all students can fill
in credits in an outward facing learning
environment American educator and
philosopher Robert n Hudson summed up my
view in one line when he said the object
of education is to prepare the young to
educate themselves throughout their
lives and that everyone is perhaps the
critical idea who must never stop
spreading
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