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A fair percentage of school curricula are well beyond their use-by-date. Kids are taught stuff they will never need.
However, lots of what they will need is not on the agenda. And we're not even talking about the things their parents
should teach them. So it is time to bring both the syllabus and the philosophy of education into the 21st century.
That's why Global Natives families are currently working on a fundamental change of tactics. Particularly in maths.
"Maths is traumatic for way too many youngsters, most private tuition goes into it, and it prematurely puts an end to
too many promising academic careers."
That's Michael Wu's résumé, he is the coordinator and has put years of research into the topic.
"Yet, mathematical thinking is one of the most useful tools in life! But so many elements give teenagers a hard time,
only never to be seen and heard of again, once the exams are over. What these kids really need is confidence in their
own problem-solving capacities."
The new dialogues families held during the pandemic led to the conclusion that more cooperation amongst us was
badly needed to give our next generation the education they needed and deserved.
Meanwhile, there are already over 23,200 students, teachers and university professors from all 61 nations at work,
creating a powerful concept for the future. Their policy paper will be sophisticated and challenging, it will set new international standards. By the end of 2023 it will be presented to all ministries of education.
This will go hand in hand with bringing all personal networks into the story to give the agenda the necessary
urgency: We do have, after all, seven ministers of education and a dozen of Nobel laureates amongst us, as
well as tens of thousands of leading officials, headmasters and principals and a wide range of politicians.
The paper will give a clear indication of what is needed as a new international standard and what needs to go.
It will tell, drawn from the personal experience of students and teachers, how to best sift out and sort anew.
One EU minister commented: "Maths is the flagship, no doubt. I wish most of all for this to succeed in creating more
curiosity and genuine joy of learning. And I hope, that another subject will receive adequate attention too, one that
also ends up traumatizing a certain percentage of students: PE. What most kids love as sport can be humiliation and
pain to others. We must create a system that is able to instil the longing to move in all kids. No teenager should ever
dread sports because of being shamed in school."
School systems are never fast to adapt, and on a national level there is not much leeway to turn up the heat.
So it makes sense for Global Natives families to make full use of the powerful leverage of international competition.
This can give new learning the dynamics it needs to tackle the 21st century.
Young Global Superpowers and their mentors are the ideal engine to drive this project all the way!
However, lots of what they will need is not on the agenda. And we're not even talking about the things their parents
should teach them. So it is time to bring both the syllabus and the philosophy of education into the 21st century.
That's why Global Natives families are currently working on a fundamental change of tactics. Particularly in maths.
"Maths is traumatic for way too many youngsters, most private tuition goes into it, and it prematurely puts an end to
too many promising academic careers."
That's Michael Wu's résumé, he is the coordinator and has put years of research into the topic.
"Yet, mathematical thinking is one of the most useful tools in life! But so many elements give teenagers a hard time,
only never to be seen and heard of again, once the exams are over. What these kids really need is confidence in their
own problem-solving capacities."
The new dialogues families held during the pandemic led to the conclusion that more cooperation amongst us was
badly needed to give our next generation the education they needed and deserved.
Meanwhile, there are already over 23,200 students, teachers and university professors from all 61 nations at work,
creating a powerful concept for the future. Their policy paper will be sophisticated and challenging, it will set new international standards. By the end of 2023 it will be presented to all ministries of education.
This will go hand in hand with bringing all personal networks into the story to give the agenda the necessary
urgency: We do have, after all, seven ministers of education and a dozen of Nobel laureates amongst us, as
well as tens of thousands of leading officials, headmasters and principals and a wide range of politicians.
The paper will give a clear indication of what is needed as a new international standard and what needs to go.
It will tell, drawn from the personal experience of students and teachers, how to best sift out and sort anew.
One EU minister commented: "Maths is the flagship, no doubt. I wish most of all for this to succeed in creating more
curiosity and genuine joy of learning. And I hope, that another subject will receive adequate attention too, one that
also ends up traumatizing a certain percentage of students: PE. What most kids love as sport can be humiliation and
pain to others. We must create a system that is able to instil the longing to move in all kids. No teenager should ever
dread sports because of being shamed in school."
School systems are never fast to adapt, and on a national level there is not much leeway to turn up the heat.
So it makes sense for Global Natives families to make full use of the powerful leverage of international competition.
This can give new learning the dynamics it needs to tackle the 21st century.
Young Global Superpowers and their mentors are the ideal engine to drive this project all the way!