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The Educational Train | Adem Abdelwahab Taha | TEDxAlShohada


how much how much have we come from our
education that we’ve implemented in our
in our organizations companies
well I’m not devaluing via via a nun
lowering the value of academic seus
academics is very important but it’s in
today’s world it’s not as important as
it was once during the industrial
revolution
and yet our education system is highly
focused on academics now I believe that
the educational train was really
distracted from its original purpose
because the term education comes from a
latin word called ediload which means to
develop from within not without can we
break for the past hundred years we are
bringing in our students
put it up in rows behind tables and feed
them information what do we do about it
we can’t wipe all the education and
introduce a new education system because
there’s still value in academics but we
need to change the focus of our
education to us originally named
developing our children from within now
here today there are father’s there are
students there are employees there are
senior employees and how can we all work
together to inspire change through
education well if I am I’m not a father
problem brother Tuen sister was doing
her high school right now I never want
her to
results because once we finish
University and this is one thing that I
had witnessed once I finish University I
thought I had all I need to jump into
the job market and do the best but it
was not true how many of you has gone
through professional development raise
your hands please
as he said yes what do you think how
many of you think that these
professional developments were of
benefits and it makes you change the way
you do your business
and also make you change your
productivity increase your productivity
and value we all do as a matter of fact
every time I go to an organization to
conduct a training when we assess the
problems that are there in the
organization’s
most of the time almost 95% of the time
is not a technical problem it’s a
leadership problem and a leadership
problem basically refers back to the
character it’s a character problem so
it’s a character development development
training almost any problem that needs
seeing an organization linked back to
character control so what is our next
step how do we influence change through
education first we’ve identified the
problem you know that there is a problem
in education second how can we be part
of the solution because just like we
said a dream without a ship is
vish how do we transfer from the wishing
moment into action mode what is for all
of us first to empower our children our
siblings our relatives whatever is going
through the education system to focus on
his personal growth not on his papers
how many students if anyone is a father
a brother to a person was in the school
in the education system how many how
many times have we told our children our
brothers you have to score high well as
I see this if my sister goes to school
and she scores a hundred percent line
with that system is not working right
because the system did not challenge her
enough and she went through it as a
matter of fact the challenges become
higher and higher once we go out on our
own when we get out of the education
system so we can help more challenged
and the companies the top companies are
looking for those who have divergent
thinking with they’re faced with
problems when they’re faced with
challenges so the experts at the top the
senior directors of the fortune 500
companies are telling us is not all
about the information the top
competencies are divergent thinking
emotional intelligence and change
management and in our educational train
is moving on the other direction and
it’s feeding our children warmer and
more
nation Herbert Simon will sit
information distracts attention hence a
wealth of information creates a poverty
of attention and I believe that by
raising the awareness and taking action
each one of us taking action towards
making a change we can bring back the
attention of Education to this purpose
to its original purpose and develop our
children from within thank you very much
what is the genius but if you judge a
fish by its ability to climb a tree
everyone will live his life in Tibet
stupid
I was once teaching an English class to
a new group of students for in the lower
intermediate level of English and each
student was tending up introducing
himself at the beginning of the class by
saying his name his age and his
occupation or educational level so I was
going to the students one by one until I
reached to a disease a disease stood up
and said my name is Abdul Aziz I’m 19
years old and I have served 12 years in
school what else too naive trying to
correct him and I said after Aziz you
have used the word serve in the context
we usually say I served 12 years in
prison not in school
he looked back at me and he said what
was the difference in both cases people
are behind closed walls doing things
that they want
but the only difference between prison
school is that criminals go to prison
and everyone goes to school I have been
an educator for almost a decade now and
I had a wish a three Mott say to meet
one student that will tell me our
teacher I’m so excited to go to school
tomorrow I love school is the most
beautiful place in this world but a
dream without an action is merely a wish
we all know that so in order to start
taking action need to look at when did
the educational training went wrong
let’s roll back in time and look into
the history of Education during the
district evolution education was
introduced to the masses so what
basically did what they were basically
doing was they were taking children from
factories all farms and placing them in
behind this industry industries wanted
their employees to communicate more
effectively and to develop numeracy
competence in 1825 the 3 R’s were
developed where industries wanted their
employees to have proficiency in reading
writing and arithmetic 100 years later
standardized tests were developed
including IQ tests without we currently
have well
after all this long time we are living
in a very rapid changing world where
technology is competing with humans in
the job market and yet our educational
train has been traveling towards the
safe direction for over a hundred years
right now what is wrong where are we
missing what can we do about it
a survey was once made by the top 1800
directors in the fortune 500 companies
in America and they were asked what are
the top competencies that has attributed
to your success at the top three were
divergent thinking emotional
intelligence and change management what
is that what you’re thinking an example
would be to think of as many uses as you
can for a toothpick some mile is a few
some might listen 10 and but the score
on a heart of genius level is to visit
more than a hundred use of a toothpick
an example could be if the tooth
still feature is long and it’s made of
steel and it’s placed on the top of a
building it would act as a repellent to
lightnings so America that they made
another they made a divergent thinking
test for kindergarten to students
several years ago and the result of this
test were wonderful 98% of the students
scored at genius level the test was
redone about 70 years later to the same
group of students but they were in the
seventh grade and there was a huge turn
down in the results only five percent
scored at genius level that can tell us
something about where the educational
train is taking our students now more
than ever we have built a culture around
education where we judge our students
our children by the grades they get in
school parents crave the grades and they
compare their children to themselves
when they were in school they prepare
their children with their relatives with
30 years with their siblings as well so
the pressure all the students on getting
a high praise is very enormous and
they will do anything they can to go
through it and get their results some
might cheat as well what is this all
business where is all this taking our
children we are actually conditioning
our children for short-term memories
because it’s really obvious what
students do after the exams they
completely for their books away most of
them as I know they forget everything
that they studied in the school and then
here and enjoy a verification and once
they come back to school the whole
process repeats again for 12 years until
they finish high school and then when
they go to college they go on the same
educational train again they’re working
hard to get the highest results I had a
friend of mine to college where we were
I was doing electronics engineering and
my friend was doing Computer Engineering
and we have our exam the same day so we
got together the weekend and we were
studying our courses we had two
different courses so on that’s how I was
studying I was looking at my friend
which was natively turning on the TV
turn it off the TV going out I could
look back in if I think friends and
having fun and then they need so don’t
we can pass
that and I get to asking him honey
what’s wrong with you you’ve got an
important exam for Monday and yet you
haven’t studied anything he said don’t
worry I’ve got a plan I got a plan all
right that’s cool and then towards the
evening is Sunday evening he still
didn’t do anything and then as a friend
I have this possibility over him and I
tell everybody now you’re really wasting
your time if you happen and fail this
course tomorrow what’s gonna happen to
you you have to come all over again for
another sentence to repeat your course
so spitter to study now they come for
another course he said don’t worry I
haven’t plan either don’t worry and then
he looked out the house he came back
about an hour later and he was holding a
back with all the architectural
equipments the long ruler the triangles
the protractor the protractor again I
wouldn’t say what he used to be he said
don’t worry I got a plan
and then he rolled down the building
paper of the the drawing paper on the
floor he said this is the final now I
want you to really help you of this one
you see all the information I have in my
books here I’m going to copy them down
here and we are going to work together
to make them all in a small notebook
that I will take with me to the exam
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all right well if that’s what you’re
looking for I’ll help so so we worked
for the next four hours of making all
those plans and he took the paper we
both went to tour exams next day and the
later that evening I meant a you know
the Caddy up to exam did you manage sit
down man
the teacher was all over even he was
standing all the way all the time
they’re in I I couldn’t I look too bad I
told you to study that doesn’t work he
said but I tried I saw what I could
what’s surprising about the story was a
month later when I asked Aramis that he
scored that specific course he scored
Afeni that was really surprising and as
I looked into the situation I realized
that when you marriage your subject
wouldn’t end in an activity when you put
your subject into an activity there
really and for the makes you use your
kinesthetic energy you’re moving you do
something that you enjoy something other
than sitting
on the table and reading your books and
using more of our senses when we are
studying it gives us more absurdity of
information so that was a technique I
use with my students all the time
because I see a lot of them that come
prepare to cheat so I’m leaving before
they sound I tell them listen everyone
it’s okay if you want to achieve this
fine you can cheat but there are rules
to cheating and what like this is what
we’re going to do
everyone listen down in small groups and
you’re going to list down everything you
studied and put the put up on a wall
jump everything you studied and that
they do this and what’s surprising is
that during the exam they no one bothers
to raise his head look towards the wall
because they work on it I won’t add to
our educational train when we look at
our own education how much or how
relevant is it to our own success
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