...and its a docu-movie about the 'school problem'.
Sharing and improving knowledge from one generation to the next is really what our future is made of. Get educated for a bright future has been the maxim of every nation of the last century. The performance of national schools and universities have been used as a touchstone the gauge the future potential of nations through international rankings and student aptitude tests. You would think that in the 21st century we would have the art of 'getting educated' super mastered, yet it seems getting our kids an education is becoming an unexpected source of worry.
I can tell you that it is a big headache for middle-class parents in Malaysia, where I currently live. Malaysia is a country vying to be a developed nation by 2020, still this promising country that is no stranger to modernity is in a socio-political conundrum on how to improve its deteriorating public education performance. I couldn’t have guessed that this would ever become an issue as I thought the system was good when I went through it. What changed?
It was enlightening to me after watching Waiting for "Superman" that the problems the US is facing with its elementary and high schools are similar to what my country in the far side of the world is also facing.
I am using this movie as an intro to my ideas on the future of education which I believe will transform by leaps and bounds as the internet education technology takes hold and provides greater autonomy to students, teachers and parents.
Sharing and improving knowledge from one generation to the next is really what our future is made of. Get educated for a bright future has been the maxim of every nation of the last century. The performance of national schools and universities have been used as a touchstone the gauge the future potential of nations through international rankings and student aptitude tests. You would think that in the 21st century we would have the art of 'getting educated' super mastered, yet it seems getting our kids an education is becoming an unexpected source of worry.
I can tell you that it is a big headache for middle-class parents in Malaysia, where I currently live. Malaysia is a country vying to be a developed nation by 2020, still this promising country that is no stranger to modernity is in a socio-political conundrum on how to improve its deteriorating public education performance. I couldn’t have guessed that this would ever become an issue as I thought the system was good when I went through it. What changed?
It was enlightening to me after watching Waiting for "Superman" that the problems the US is facing with its elementary and high schools are similar to what my country in the far side of the world is also facing.
I am using this movie as an intro to my ideas on the future of education which I believe will transform by leaps and bounds as the internet education technology takes hold and provides greater autonomy to students, teachers and parents.
Waiting for "Superman" trailer
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