Currently, in many countries
undergoing reforms of public education. This process
faces many challenges, problems approach to reform. The first problem is that
the children are trying to prepare for the future of the old methods, which
pushes many children who will no longer see the point of walking to class.
Children explained earlier, that if you do well in school, go to college, get a
degree and be sure to find a decent job. But our children do not believe it:
with a degree, of course, is better than without it, but it does not give any
guarantees. Reformers believe that the way out of the situation may be
improving educational standards. The problem is that the current system of
education was created and be translated to a different era, an era of cultural
education and the economic conditions of the Industrial Revolution.
Until the mid-18th century, a
national education system simply does not exist. Importantly, education was
received by children from rich families and influential classes. Then it was
thought that the mind consists of the ability to identify the type of deductive
thinking and knowledge of the classics in the original - it is now calling the
academic abilities. At the moment, based on the state of education is the
division of people into two types, intellectuals and non-intellectuals. In
fact, we have that many potential geniuses do not even have a clue about their
talents, because their abilities are evaluated on a very one-sided definition
of the criteria of reason.
As everyone knows, the education
system rests on two "elephants": economic and intellectual. Nowadays,
a lot of the children affected by the sources of information and more external
stimuli than ever before in human history. With each of the sources of
information as trying to master their attention, whether it be computer games,
cell phones, television advertising or hundreds of television shows. But this
information it seems much more interesting than what is taught in school.
Another fundamental problem is that the current education system operates on a
system of industry: schools still resemble plants (calls, breaks, individual
housing, specializing in individual subjects). Children are still trained in
groups of 10 to 20 people, divided into age groups. Some children are given
some things easier than others, and it is easier to learn at a certain time of
day. Practice has shown that children learn better in small groups than in
large ones. In reforming the education system need to move away from thinking
in terms of industry, because at the moment of trying to put in a single
framework increasingly standardizing testing methods.
It is not so long ago was published
a study on divergent thinking (not to be confused with the creative).
Creativity - is the process of creating some of the original ideas that have
value. A divergent thinking - it is rather the conditions for creativity. It
has been proven that creativity and divergent thinking with age fades... [1] We
came to the conclusion that it is necessary to stop: we must first change the
point of view of the human mind, it is necessary to stop dividing people into
capable and incapable, but to give the start and maintain is personal,
individual characteristics of the person. It's time to end the divide objects
into abstract, theoretical and professional. It is also necessary to recognize
the truth of teaching children in groups, but not big on structure. First, it
promotes cooperation and communication skills, and second, a small number of
students in this group will result in better learning and mastering of a
material, as one teacher is not 10, and not 20, and 5-6, respectively for each
student will be given more time in education.
Not to be unfounded, take for
example our medical university. On the fifth year of study there is a system
for the distribution of subordinators. There is no dispute that subordinatura
necessary and important, as it allows her more deeply into sections of the
"branches" of medicine. But the distribution system is not ideal. It
is here that there is no logical differentiation among students. For example,
there is a group of anesthesiology and intensive care, which recruits students
with high scores overall performance, with outstanding points for examination
in anaesthesiology and intensive care, there is added points scored for
publications, research papers and articles. What is the purpose of Medical
University in Belarus? And the next aim, which, by the way, in other countries
the same: release of highly qualified specialists particular area of medicine.
Then the question arises: so what's the problem? And the problem is this: a
group of the same anesthesiologists and intensive care specialists recruited
people without explicit approach to personality. A student may not have a high
GPA, not to participate in the active life of the university, but at the same
time, it may just be a fan of anesthesiology and resuscitation as practical and
theoretical science: to go on duty as an assistant doctor in his spare time to
study questions of items regarding future profession, follow the latest news,
articles, publications, research conducted in the field. It can be said that
such a student will be proficient in the theoretical and practical skills. But!
Such a person has the potential to not get into a group subordinators
anesthesiology and intensive care for one simple reason: there are those who
have a higher average score. Average ... That does not figure human knowledge
in a certain field. Where is the guarantee that the person with the highest
average score will be better than the anesthesiologist, who is an ardent fan of
the knowledge and practice? No guarantees, we would even say that they do not
exist at all ... And now remember, what is the main role of the medical
university?
Summarizing, we need to remember
that only the individual approach in education is the best way of both the
individual and the nation as a whole.
Used literature:
1. G. Land & B. Jarman “Breakpoint and Beyond – mastering the future
today”