It has always been said that the current education system is not up to the mark and how it's a standardized system where it's taught the same way to all the students and given the same tests to all the students. But every student like every human is different and should have personalized education (not like Byju's claims but a different one.)
That's not the only pressing issue that exists in the current education system. What I'm observing is students are getting ahead of their teachers in many aspects. Due to high internet penetration students are consuming content in unprecedented quantities. They watch youtube videos, binge on Netflix series and live a second life on social networks.
What this does is fill the students' brains with obscure facts. In this information age, the quantity of information that's with the students is humongous. Just the basics of a subject are not going to satiate their curiosity. It's easier than ever to create something or experiment. So students need to be taught to create because they can learn anything for free from the internet that interests them.
Because our world is moving at such a fast pace even what gets taught at the higher level of education gets obsolete in a few years. What does that tell you about high school education?
Few teenagers become fascinated by the current trends of the creator economy set out to become vloggers, influencers, entrepreneurs. They do research, iterations and many more complex things that their previous generations can only dream of.
But that also come with a caveat: young girls getting anxiety issues due to excess usage of Instagram and Tik-Tok. Boys getting into gaming addictions and losing money on games.
The bottom line is the teachers are just not equipped to handle the needs of this Gen-Z era and just reskilling them is not gonna cut it. This leads to young professionals getting into the teaching profession who are well equipped to understand this generation of students.
But there's one more problem the young people who leave their jobs to come to the education sector are a group of people who get fed up by their corporate life and want a stress free life. But being a teacher is more than just teaching maths, physics and chemistry. They need to guide students as that is needed now more than ever.
There is nothing that gets in the way of success more than avoidance.
To justify our avoidance, we lie to ourselves. We tell ourselves that we’re noble — we don’t want to hurt someone’s feelings. We tell ourselves we don’t want to offend others.
We tell ourselves that things will get better. We tell ourselves that things will get easier. We tell ourselves that we can avoid the real issue without any impact. We tell ourselves we'll start when the time is right.
Sometimes we muster up half the courage. We have half the conversation we wanted to have. We do half the hard thing. We acknowledge the evidence but convince ourselves this time is different. We see the person we’re avoiding but don’t really talk to them. We start but don't commit to the project. And here’s the interesting thing. Half-efforts tend to make things worse, not better. When things don’t get better, it only reinforces that we shouldn’t have said anything in the first place.
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Avoiding isn’t better, it’s just easier. Not only does avoiding today make the future harder, but it also almost always makes the present harder. Avoiding puts you on a hair-trigger, anything will set you off. We all do this. Who hasn’t entirely avoided a hard conversation with their partner about something only to find themselves in an insignificant argument over something trivial? Of course, the petty fight isn’t about the trivial thing, it’s about avoidance of the hard thing.
Everything becomes harder until we stop avoiding what's getting in the way.
The longer you wait the higher the cost.