Your new post is loading...
Educational institutions and their teaching systems lag far behind when it comes to adapting to new forms of knowledge and learning. While the education system shapes some of the components of society, it is also conditioned by society, and has therefore to adapt to society’s many and increasingly varied changes.
The requirements of changing ways of thought, scientific discoveries, new technologies, the steady turnover of the school population and the emergence of parallel education in the form of Internet and multimedia are only some of the factors which formal education has difficulty in assimilating.
The education system itself is reluctant to accept new teaching techniques and aids. In the age of the satellite, in the age of instant world communication, schools are still using blackboards or power-point presentations as placebos. This is not even realistic planning; it is enslavement to the past.
The education system is moving in new directions. The need for change is emerging.