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I feel that the entire education industry is still, sadly, bogged down in the 1990’s. We award good studying, good memorization, good exam scores. Yet we know that this kind of academic success is woefully inadequate in the real world. In this turbo-charged, digital information age, where it takes literally seconds to access the most sophisticated knowledge out there does it really matter if you know your text-book stuff well? I tell it to my students all the time, what’s in your text-books today may not be so tomorrow. So why are we still attached to the antiquated modalities of knowledge?
Perhaps the time has come to drastically redraw our teaching strategy. Our goal can no longer be to impart facts that are rapidly replaced almost as soon as they graduate by updated ‘versions’. We need to teach students to think, to dream, to rise. We need to teach students above all, that they can learn, and learn to love, any subject they set their sights on.
The future belongs to those who can embrace all the intricacies of a world so mind-bogglingly connected and we, as professors, may very well be the only thing that prevents them from learning all this the hard way.
Marc Mikhael, PhD
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