06/08/2024
Why is the education system designed to be pushing square pegs in round holes? I’m not interested in a world where we all think in the same way. A world without creativity and innovation; without debates or breakthroughs. I am proudly a square peg, and my fellow dyslexics are square pegs too. But the education system is full of round holes. Square pegs don’t fit neatly in round holes, we’re not uniform, and we don’t fit snuggly into the education system. As a result, at school, we’re often told we’re failures. We need to reimagine and reshape the way children are taught and set up for life to fit with what students need, and with what the world needs right now. At the moment, we’re spending years preparing kids for a world that no longer exists. Take AI as an example – most schools aren’t teaching it, but isn’t the goal of school to prepare you for what next? Here’s my thoughts on why schools need to ditch uniformity and look ahead to the future: https://virg.in/4dsPWc3
