Challenges for Educators - Define the challenge

1. Challenges for Educators
21st Century and Beyond

2. Mirza Yawar Baig
Opening the world, one mind at a time©
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3. Perspective
‘Nations that don’t learn from history are
condemned to repeat it.’
 Is the ability to hold two pictures simultaneously in
your mind – where you are now and where you want
to be
 Knowledge of history is critical in putting the present
into perspective

4. Changes thanks to the
Industrial Revolution
1760-1820/40 to 2015

5. 1. Time of day: Sun to shift bell
2. Parental role: Life coach to wage earner
3. Source of knowledge: Parent to Teacher
4. Concern: Collective to individual
Industrial Revolution changed
We’re all part of this – not standing outside

6. Challenge
To deal with rapid disruptive change
Future change will take years where past change
took centuries

7. 1. Goals: Non-monetary to money
2. Success: Long term to short term
3. Human value: Honor to money
4. Net worth: Character to bank balance
5. Progress: Rapid continuous growth
Changes – Industrial Revolution
Programmed dissatisfaction

8. Enter the age of Materialism
Value re-engineering

9. 1. Spending... Not save
2. Own... Not share
3. Greed... Not contentment
4. Individualism... Not collectivism
New Values
Materialism is the fastest spreading religion

10.  Changed from raising children to earning money because women were needed
in the workplace.
 Dress code changed to make it more body hugging. Veil vanished and so did
long skirts.
 Women began being exploited to sell products and services. Women were
objectified and commoditized through Beauty Pageants, films, beauty icons, all
judged by men.
 Women's Lib was invented
 If you disagree ask why women are still (2014) paid 80% of what men are paid for
the same job?
Women’s role

11. As on 2014 women are paid 20% less than men for the same work

12.  Raising children, caring for the home and husband were run
down and degraded and going out of that house to earn
money in a job no matter how menial was lauded.
 Freedom was reinterpreted to mean display of body and
asserting of self no matter what the reason. Marriage was
devalued and eventually discarded. Promiscuity became the
norm. Illegitimacy was legalised as was premarital sex.
New Values
Values vigorously propagated even enforced

13.  Apprenticeship for skills for common people
 Schools for leadership education which taught theology, philosophy, logic,
language... For clergy and rulers.
 Harrow School 1572 Royal Charter Queen Elizabeth 1
 Oxford 1096. Taught only theology and Latin
 Harvard: 1636 (Taj Mahal: 1632-1643)
 Oldest university in the world still in operation granting degrees is University of
Karaouine, in Fez, Morocco, established by an African Muslim woman Fatima al-
Fihri in 859.
 Second oldest is Al Azhar founded in 970.
Teaching used to be of two kinds
Lost Muslim initiative was never regained

14.  The tragic travesty of schooling is that it's highly successful.
 The World Order needed dumb obedient slaves who wouldn't
dream of questioning the rulers. So schools, curriculum and
methodology was designed to kill imagination and creativity.
 Questioning was called rebelliousness and mercilessly stamped out.
Dependence on the teacher was reinforced because teachers need
jobs and if children discovered that to learn, they don't really need
an adult all the time talking down to them, the teacher's job would
be threatened.
Schooling didn’t fail
See what happens in your school to children who disagree with teachers

16.  Schools were created for the benefit of owners and
teachers, not children.
 They work on the principle of industrial production.
 Parents are consumers. Teachers are producers.
 Children are raw material which is done to – not partnered
with
Who do schools benefit?
This is the story to this day

17.  Grades by date of manufacture – called age
 Seating to fit in maximum number of packages per square foot
 Bells to indicate start and end of shift
 Minimize teacher student ratio – reduce overheads
 Sit facing teacher to kill inter personal interaction
 Maintain silence in class so no thought share
 Collaboration during exams is called cheating and punished
Industrial model
Schools are factories and run like factories

18.  Standard clothing
 Standard response
 Standard needs
 Silence
 No protest, suggestion or question
Discipline is defined as..
That’s why retired military officers are so
popular as administrators

19.  Exams: Test only random regurgitation of undigested
information within a specific timeframe.
 Not understanding, application, value addition.
 They exist not because they're the best way to measure
learning but checking memory is the easiest thing to do.
Exams – the final nail
Exams prove that our system in farcical

21. 1. What do you call someone who studied something full
time for 15 years?
2. What do you call your high school graduate?
3. Which job calls for a high school graduate?
3 – Questions
Did you ever ask, ‘Why?’

22.  That's why at the end of 15+ years of full time learning your child
actually learns no life skills, no profession, can't earn a living or take
care of himself, has random bits of information in his head but no
clue what to do with it and ends up hating all that he learnt in
school.
 Ask your children how many pick up a school text book once the
year is over.
Final Result
The amazing thing is that you actually pay for this

23. Our biggest
challenge

24. To solve problems that we don’t
even know as ‘problems’ yet
Because today’s ‘great idea’ can
become tomorrow’s problem

25. Our biggest need
IMAGINATION

26. But our schools
destroy it in the child
as quickly as they can
Our system
rewards compliance
and punishes originality

27.  Robotic factories and farms
 Automated cars
 Analyses by computers instead of humans will affect
stock brokers, accountants, physicians, lawyers
 Teachers will become redundant
Jobless future
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/wp/2015/07/07/sorry-but-the-jobless-future-isnt-a-
luddite-fallacy/

28.  What in your curriculum is preparing children for the
future?
 What can you teach about how to succeed in a future
you are blank about?
 What must change in what you teach and how you
teach it?
Questions to ask
How much of what I told you just now was ‘news’ to you?

29. Prepare them to
succeed in a future
we know nothing
about