Five thoughts, ideas, insights, or quotes to power up your mind to think differently and creatively about life and who we are. Put all previous thinking away and open up a brand new world of the Supermind. YOUR SuperMind.
This week – Education.
Education is at the root of the quality of society. It teaches and prepares our young generations for the future. It also aids us in our adult lives to improve and progress. It’s the bedrock of humanity. Yet, despite this, week after week it appears in the news regarding some aspect of it. Are we getting it wrong? Is it failing our children? Or are we tweaking it too much too often? This week let’s put our SuperMind Thinking onto the subject.
- Let’s go straight at it. The word education is often followed by the word system. That word means part of a complex whole. So, maybe education has become too clever itself. We are trying to do many things in too many ways. How can we make education more simple delivering the basics we all need?
- That said the world is fast evolving. Traditional subjects once (and still taught) in schools are less relevant than ever in modern life. Is it time to ditch certain subjects? What new ones should be part of the 21st Century schools curriculum?
- Another facet of education are teachers standing in front of a class of students pointing at a board with information on relating to a book or text in front of them. While that has changed over the years, this style chiefly still remains the major manner by which learning is delivered. Is there a better way to teach people (especially young people) via less learning and more doing or using technology as the main teacher?
- Nelson Mandela famously said, ‘Education is the most powerful weapon by which you can change the world‘. But is that true in today’s modern culture? Is there another stronger solution to change the world for everyone of any age?
- Thought – education has always been planned to prepare us for life, or for some skill or role to come. But this preparation is non-emotional. It is actual based and not aesthetically so. In a modern society of feelings somehow emotional awareness and resilience have to be factored into teaching as a full and whole method of education. Is it time for this biggest shift in education in hundreds of years?
That’s another SuperMind Saturday for your mind powers to work on. Thank you for being here for the SuperMind time. Keep asking yourself these through the week to open up more of your mind to evolve its potential. Consider more, generate ideas more, think on bigger possibilities more, activate your connection to your personal higher mind more and more. Employ your SuperMInd and Super Think!
See you next time for more super thinking.