| I did a brainstorm with Adam and Gary today about | | | | education system, not for the students, but for the |
| the needs of educators today. It's very clear that | | | | teachers. Teachers already have done a lot for |
| teacher training does not just encompass the imparting | | | | student systems, it's high time to do something for |
| of skills. Teachers are ill-equipped to handle students | | | | themselves. They need to educate themselves on the |
| today, not because there are generational gaps, but | | | | advances of technology, the shifts in the economy and |
| because teachers are teaching students in ways that | | | | the needs of business today as well as a global |
| will turn out students for the 20th century, not the 21st | | | | awareness of changes going on in the world, cultural |
| century. | | | | and social. |
| Teaching methodologies aside, it is important to | | | | Beyond that, teachers must also be differentiated by |
| recognize that the way in which we are training our | | | | the way they can inspire students to think the way |
| students today do not inspire many students to | | | | enabled adults do in order to solve problems and |
| become inquisitive problem-solvers and innovators for | | | | create new inventions so that they will be much more |
| the future. We have to think two decades ahead and | | | | useful as knowledge workers, where knowledge not |
| ask ourselves the serious question: are we going to be | | | | learnt in school is not a problem - they merely need to |
| able to enable these students to function in the | | | | pick it up and know how to research and advance |
| working world? | | | | their knowledge by knowing where to get the |
| Generally, the answer would be "no". | | | | information from. |
| Hence, we need to carry out a revamp of the | | | | |