Summary
Salman Khan talks
about how and why he created the remarkable Khan Academy, a carefully
structured series of educational videos offering complete curricula in math
and, now, other subjects. He shows the power of interactive exercises, and
calls for teachers to consider flipping the traditional classroom script – give
students vídeo lectures to watch at home, and do “homework” in the classroom
with the teacher available to help.
Opinion
I totally agree
with Salman Khan. The occidental education has been the same during centuries.
There was no evolution until know in the method of education.
Our system
education is influenced by Plato. Who said every individual should devote his
life to what is best fit for him to do. And the important function of
education is to determine what every individual is by nature capable and fitted
of doing things.
Nowadays
children enter school at six where they first learn the three Rs (reading,
writing and counting) and then engage with music and sports. Later when they
end High school, students have to choose one between many kind of studies.
In the 5th
century BC Plato says “Social justice is giving what is due to whom it is due”.
It looks nice but
in fact if we stop to think about it our society doesn’t let us choose what we
want to do. And this begins with the education.
Years after years some
students accumulate gaps when they don’t understand the whole subjecte. Anyway, his whole class will move on to the next subjecte, probably a more advanced
subject that's going to build on those gaps. Some people over time will
disengage. Not because something is difficult or the student isn’t bright. It's because
of this accumulation of gaps.
Salman Khan talks
about an example: Home-building. And said if we would choose to build a house
on unfinished foundations. I’m sure everybody would say “of course not”.
Why then do we urge students to finish their education when they have not always grasped the fundamentals?
Why then do we urge students to finish their education when they have not always grasped the fundamentals?
I believe our
education system must change. The idea is teaching for mastery and not test
results.
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