Tijdens TedxAmsterdam was ik door Deloitte uitgenodigd om in Rotterdam de live-stream van dit geweldige event te komen bekijken. Een erg inspirerende en leuke dag waar zelfs nog gebrainstormd werd waarbij je als inspiratie natuurlijk de diverse Ted Talks kon gebruiken. Hieronder laat ik jullie graag mijn idee lezen en ik ben erg benieuwd wat je ervan vind.
Changing education in the third world countries through the brain
During this day we’ve been talking about the ‘whole brain’, and starting there i asking you which people in this world are completely free spirits. Which people aren’t bounded by rules, norms, values and the status quo? These people aren’t the elderly, who according to today will be wiped out by the immigrants…. No, these people are the children! While we all are very aware of the free spirit in children we still believe adults are superior to them. Why…? Daniel Pink wrote a book about the whole brain where he tries to stimulate holistic thinking. These children, however, are already (or still) holistic thinkers and i’m jealous.
We should use the free thinking, we should use intrinsic motivation in changing education in the third world. With inspiration from sharing the learning curve, the whole brain and the motivation / commitment of people in a apparently hopeless situation i believe that we shouldn’t realize education in the middle east! Don’t startle just yet, while i don’t believe in realizing education i believe in facilitating education!
Learning is addictive, and teaching gives you satisfaction.
Therefor my idea is to create a flywheel of knowledge, a positive repetitive cycle!
With the current technology we can deliver knowledge for free to the third world, however data is useless unless you can transform it. Unless you can use it and apply it to your current situation. Thus i believe we shouldn’t give a child a fish (knowledge) to feed him for one day. We need to teach a child to fish (learn) and feed him for life. It’s our job to learn the children to learn themselves, we need to acknowledge the intellectual power these children have, and will develop themselves when we facilitate that learning.
We teach children something on monday, and they teach that specific subject to their younger peers on tuesday. We let them learn and teach at the same time, and thereby we’re creating problem solvers of the new world! Let children share their learning curve.
