This time last year, did you ever think we would be in this"Covid-19" situation? Neither did I, yet here we are. So my question is, what do you think the world is going to look like, for us or our children, in one year, or two or even 10 years? With that said, there is a global consensus that education systems are out of sync with the transitions the world is facing today. Technological advances are moving at such a pace, that the need for a human workforce is slowly dissipating.
In ‘21 Lessons for the 21st Century’, Yuval Harari, the philosopher and historian, points out the shift in what role humans play on earth. If jobs are to become less and we connect more and more through technology, how we nourish ourselves, our emotional intelligence, and the way we connect with others will take precedence, remarking that, “maybe we need to turn a switch in our minds and realise that taking care of a child is arguably the most important and challenging job in the world.
These four skills are widely regarded by leaders in business and education as the key to a student’s success in the 21st century workplace and are the basis to a global movement, recognising the need for students to adapt to the rapid shift into the digital age. These skills are not information based and require a vastly different approach to the current industrial-age learning of South Africa’s education system.
The many private institutes that have popped up across South Africa have been described by the Centre of Development and Enterprise as South Africa’s “hidden assets” and are the clear way forward if we are to keep up with the fast paced transitions occurring. Private organisations such as the Generation Schools who use the Montessori approach that later evolves into a Cambridge Curriculum, give children a far broader learning experience in comparison to the “traditional schooling format”.
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