Encouraging Our Children To Be Creative And Adaptable To Face The Future
We hear a lot about education, how it is so vital that our children are prepared for the future and the country is supplied with qualified people to take us through this new and exciting century. No doubt this sort of thing was being said 20 or 30 years ago but it is questionable whether the results matched up to the hopes for education.
Nobody can be blamed for not forseeing the changes in the use of computers and the finance industry. We had no preparation for the huge development of the finance industry and the enormous impact it has had on our lives. The problem with revolutions is that their consequences cannot be forseen and there will no doubt be huge changes in our lives in the future.
Being trained for life as it is today is not going to be a great deal of help for the children starting school today. When they leave school in 12 to 15 years life will be very different, the world will have changed significantly and the skills they need will no doubt be different to what matters now. Knowledge of the environment was considered as an interesting bonus to education in the past, yet now, the importance is hard to comprehend. The changes in the environment and awareness of the problems and changes they will bring are unimaginable at this point in time. The only thing we can be certain of is that there will be big changes in our energy use, the weather and how our societies respond to these changes.
What is certain is our children will need to be adaptable and able to deal with the changes. Being creative and adaptable may be more important than how good their skills are in some of the more traditional acedemic subjects. We don’t just need workers, we need visionaries, developers, inventors and free thinkers. We need creative children to be encouraged and help children reach their potential in whatever they are good at and enjoy doing.
I just watched a fascinating video about this very subject and if you care about your children’s future you might enjoy it too. Our children are our future and they are the ones that will decide the financial scenarios for us in our old age. We must hope that they, and us, are as well prepared as possible.
Watch the video and see if you don’t agree with the views put forward by Sir Ken Robinson.
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