Absolutely agree!!!

Good Morning everyone!!!

Ok, after listening to Sir Ken´s monologue (which I must admit it was sort of difficult) I say that I completly agree with most of the things he mentioned abou education, specialy when he explained that "creativity is as important in schools as literacy and that we should treat it with the same importance".

Sir Ken also gives some examples of how teachers restrict children imagination and he examplifies this with experience of the girl who was drawing God´s face and the teacher bothered at her.

However this situation not only happens in Sir Ken´s country, but also here in Chile. Actually in believe that this is a problem in almost the entire world.

Chilean schools have had many problems during these last years because pupils have emerged to fight against a system which is not focussed in their good development as autonomous citizens.

However, their requierements were not heart by educative institutions and the problem has worsened drastically.

Teachers should be prepared at the Universities to change this system. They should also be given of some new tools and strategies that help them to support pupils autonomy and social development.

Education does need fixing because it has have mistakes and problems since I was a girl.

Students are not the same as they were 30 years before and the world has changed too.

So, teachers must get adapted to each period to not bacome into boring inexperted professionals.

Nevertheless, there are some methodologies that should continue existing like test and evaluation but they lso ought to be changes in terms of form and ways.

For example: tests would less frightening for children if they were not only with exact information from a text book, but also if they could give "THEIR OWN" opinion and constructive critic to the topic which is being evaluated.

That is a good form to educate ciritical people and with cognitive knowledge at the same time...

I expect having tools and energy enough to make a change and to transnform the world and make it better.

Have nice weekend!!!