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RSA ANIMATE: Changing Education Paradigms

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Schools still operate like production lines, with bells, separate subjects, age batches, standardized curricula, and standardized tests.
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Schooling can teach one correct answer and call looking at classmates’ work cheating, while life calls it collaboration.
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A longitudinal study reported 98% of kindergarten children at genius-level divergent thinking, falling to 30%, then 15%.
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Schooling can erode divergent thinking by teaching students there is one correct answer and collaboration is cheating.
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Narrow academic definitions of intelligence make many highly capable people believe they are not intelligent.
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The rise in ADHD incidence parallels standardized testing as children face unprecedented stimulation and schools penalize lost attention.
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Education should intensify students’ sensory engagement and wake them to their capacities instead of suppressing their responsiveness.
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Academic, non-academic, abstract, theoretical, and vocational categories are a misleading myth about human capacity.
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The dominant education model has helped some people while causing widespread personal harm by misrepresenting human capability.
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Raising educational standards does not require preserving a system designed for a different historical age.
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Schools are using methods inherited from the past to prepare students for an unpredictable future, alienating many.
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Every country on Earth is reforming public education to prepare children for unpredictable economies and protect cultural identity.

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