As young people face an ever more uncertain climate beyond education join our panel as they ask; can our educators afford not to become more radically futures-aware? Listen to the full audio file: www.thersa.org
Education for Uncertain Futures
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Scary is the title. Scary is the world’s future.
@MrJonnyRamone Education (new world order) The deliberate dumbing-down of America
We must get education out of the hands of Federal government
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@GeoSolus actually he said “you could argue it’s a little bit worse” 7:05 listen 5 more seconds apparently you can read write and count but not listen
@Cardywhite111 She failed to credit John Lennon for that one.”Beautiful boy” is the song.I agree with her, just saying.
@nbaprophet100 autodidacts create the greatest minds. No indoctrination of accept concepts. Students should be taught to learn NOT retain.
@mba2ceo
True. People should be pushed to be autodidacts because you get the best performance at your own pace.
Education is a scam … 99% of education is useless. All a person needs is to learn to read, write and math … the rest he can learn on his own.
Thank you. I liked the panel a lot. It reminded me of the foresight project for Russian government I was part of few years ago. Surprizingly, people in different countries find very similar insights, but then get crushed when face the public education system and its tremendous resistance to change. As a result, few inspirational speeches turn into real projects and the topic fades away for some time to be rediscovered in some totally other place few years later
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education is just business primary gall get money fore every kids indoctrinated sol.
thats why education sucks because it is just indoctrination. no one are intrastate to get kids smart and ask questions about corrupt society.
live this inspirational bull shit to your school advertising everybody knows that its bullshit . explain too kids about government fraud like 9/11 ore bailing out wall-street . canbis, fiction oile shortage and price can you say truth in school?
the entire problem with the education system is that there are too many uncared about children being ” educated” by uncaring teachers. reading, writing and ‘rithmatic is what should be taught in schools, not jonny has two mommies, cows are people, too, and, we suck, because we are human. education is up to the parents, NOT schools
It is funny that people often do not want children to get degrees sooo much that they start to adjust their environment to give them a huge disadvantage. What a god forsaken society.
“life is what happens when you are busy and you are making plans it just keeps on rolling along unless you stop and think” (female speaker) that is so true…I was educated in the fifties and sixties,went on to college and social work as my children grew…I have done youth work and probation and worked with children…now in my sixties I am learning more from the internet than I was ever taught in school…but core values never change. Morality is important. Loving thy neighbour as thyself.
@d3st88 Fire away bro, the stage is yours.
@stellarshore
That’s a rather poor comment to top rate it.
The fact it was thumbed up feels like an awful lot of people thought to themselves:
“Hellyeah, I’m not smart, but I’m at least living life. I might not give a shit about the world or know anything about it, but at least I’m not one of those losers who sit above a book all day in a dark basement! I’m dumb, but it’s ok!”
@StarxLolita I didn’t say that. that was another user. you have me confused with someone else. look at the comment history.
some bright individuals slip through the cracks but all I’m saying is build it so tiny cracks aren’t the only outlets for making it out with a mind intact. it’s dangerous letting the past determine the future, and we’re cultivating this danger in the way we employ learning. it often goes too far into the waters of the past that it risks ever making it back to the shore of the present. reflection of the past is essential, but we forget that it should be created by the present, not reborn in it.
the first step would be to stop conceiving of school as an industrial assembly line ffs. it effectively sterilizes the mind with its debilitating procrustean logic and indifferent, bureaucratic operation. like we’ve forgotten schools are for LIVING minds, not dead ones.
with having learned nearly exclusively past ideas instead of fostering creativity in the present for the sake of the future, we cripple the potential of the mind for the sake of minutiae and monotony of the status quo.
@Ravengaurd6 “Please don’t try to argue that drugs and irresponsible sex don’t…..” Read that post. That was yours. That was your first mention of irresponsible sex, before I even mentioned it. My view of irresponsible sex would be where you sleep around with people, rather than not practicing safe sex. There’s a difference, is what I was saying. You used the term first, and you didn’t use the proper word.
Anyway, you missed the point of the first person’s comment and I’m not replying again.
@stellarshore I was in the middle of a really shitty day. when conformists are pushing me towards the cliff. You gave me hope. Thanks
@ihnlChiv yes they are available, you can subscribe to our podcasts (full audio) and vodcasts (video highlights) on iTunes. Audio itunes.apple.com/podcast/rsa-events-audio/id303639958 and video itunes.apple.com/podcast/rsa-events-vision-videos/id325808178
This video was a load of bs, we won’t solve the problem by thinking like this.
@StarxLolita I can’t be responsible for making a poor choice of words because I did not use them first in the conversation.
remember YOU said: How is IRRESPONSIBLE sex bad?
I was replying to that question. you’ were talking about the socio-moral connotations that the term may have, but I was focusing on the semantics and your usage of it.
The definition of irresponsible:not liable to answer for consequences;carefree
therefore,one who makes unsafe decisions can properly be called irresponsible.
Educational system is a scam !!! We all are slaves !!!
@Ravengaurd6 Nonexistant? You call it unsafe, not irresponsible. That’s the word, unsafe. In my mind, irresponsible sex would be a word stuck-up overly-religious people use to name sex before marriage or something. You made the poor choice of words, not me.