Only a well-rounded intellect, a spirit nourished in the eternal sources of intelligence and culture, of justice and wisdom, is a safeguard against both indifference and skepticism. |
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Ameen Rihani - Writer and Intellectual | |||||||||
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IDENTIFYING SKILL RELATED GAPS AND NEEDS AND GRADUALLY INCREMENTING COMPETENCE LEVELS Education is all about preparation as we all know. The problem is “what are we preparing our children for?” As Steiner sees it, the world is moving too fast in too many directions for anyone to get a firm hold on it. If someone say’s they can, well, we must respectfully disagree. They are either chest-thumping or seriously overestimating themselves or fibbing or all three.
It doesn’t need rocket science to figure this one out. A simple look at how dramatically the world has changed over the last decade will indicate how ill prepared we were with our various qualifications and skills sets to face it well. For example the bottom fell out of the legal industry and in places like the USA, there has been an astonishing 38% drop in enrollment at top law schools. Engineers are in trouble and the world is throwing money at finance, business promotion and human resource persons desperately trying to generate cash where cash is at a premium with global public debt being USD 57 trillion against total usable cash of 65 trillion. Obviously this state of affairs cannot last and something will explode quite soon. The key question then reduces to this: “how on earth can we, the educators, the teachers, the facilitators prepare our kids for a world that is in fact, looking more and more like everyone’s worst nightmare?“
Steiner doesn’t believe in showing parents a world for their kids seen through pink spectacles. Instead, we round out their early education, factoring in all possible skills they may require in a decade from now. Once early childhood education is complete, we evaluate our students in terms of their skills in math, English, science, aesthetics as well as temperament, adjustment, confidence and self-belief, compassion, empathy etc.
As a child progresses through grade school, Steiner educators know that the child is commencing to look at the world through independent eyes and a reflective mind and is subconsciously making choices. These are not always completely thought through, are very changeable but they constitute the essence of what the child will serve the world with. We provide the child with a rounding up or rounding out of their initial knowledge acquisition tasks so that those choices are made to optimize the future of the child. |
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