Tag: education

Previous posts focused on what is wrong with our current educational system. I am not breaking any new ground here, please read anything that the late Ken Robinson published in the past 20 years and you will find a much more detailed and developed set of ideas for the future of education. We are not … Continue reading Injecting drive in our educational system

Yesterday I wrote about my frustration with the current state of our education. You can go ahead and read that post here, but in essence it comes down to the observation that our adherence to industrial-type education is failing to prepare us for the future. Now, preparing for the future is a broad concept, but … Continue reading Education based on intrinsic motivation

I'm frustrated. I have opinions about lots of things, but I am frustrated about the current state of education in Belgium, and likely in other countries as well. What's my beef? Our post-industrial world still educates for an industrial environment. We are still trying to produce as similar cogs as possible that then need to … Continue reading Our failure to educate

Perform or else Each start of a school year I am surprised about the enormous pressure we dare put on our children. Such an amount of requirements we put on their shoulders. And if they fail to live up to our high expectations, we send them for assessment and evaluation, because something must be wrong. … Continue reading The pressure to perform – stealing from our children