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I rest my case

Today I would like to share with you a video we have watched several times in our master's degree which according to my view perfectly summarises how education needs to change.  


Before entering school students have different dreams, goals and ideas but when they finish they are exactly the same, all of them think in the same way as education has turned them into robots killing their creativity and individuality.
As it can be seen, there are many thing to do because in literally more than a century nothing has changed in education. The world has progessed and as a consequence of that the school system needs to adapt to modern times. We need creative, independent and critic people... and in order to have those kind of people education has to enhance that.
In the video it is also mentioned that students have different needs, strenghts, dreams and gifts.
Therefore teachers should adapt to those specific characteristics that each student have but reality is different. We cannot teach the same things the same way because not all of our students are equal.
As the man says, if we continue like these results will be lethal. Education needs to be upgraded and changed because “whereas students are only 20% of our population they are 100% of our future”.

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