The Current High School Education Must Change to Save the World
Welcome readers, to the locker metaphor. Let me introduce it to you. In school, Gen X & Millennials grew up in a world where learning physics, biology, history, and math were the centre of the world. We would spend our days from class to class, learning about our current world, and giving too much importance to knowledge which has been written in books since a century or more ago. As we grew, we saw this as the most important content, learned it by heart for our exams, passed our final essays, and received our high school diploma. We were slowly placed inside our school lockers with rigid walls and endless books inside. After 13 years, we were trapped in it; in a rigid and inflexible education form, which would affect us for the rest of our lives.
Now, let's be real. Our current world is a mess, but fantastic too. We are in the middle of the Fourth Industrial Revolution; technology accelerates at unprecedented rates, democracy is trembling, international conflict divides collective mindedness, and what we do with our economic and social system in the next 10 years will determine the future of humanity. But still, for some reason, we are learning primarily about the building blocks of the universe and the history of our countries. Don’t get me wrong, this is good information. Basic knowledge is a key factor high school gives us that…
