At present what we are teaching is not going to matter in the future. What’s the worth of teaching the syllabus, that is not helping our students in the future in any way. Winning quiz competitions or ace spelling competitions is not going to help the children in any way, not good returns of investment.

Meeting The Demand of The Current Students

Many of us have learned and crammed things that are not knowledgeable and without improvement in skills that are demanded. What is the use of education which is not improving our kids? This must be thought of in your mind. Let’s take a look at the current scenario and compare it.

What We Need to Let Go?

Firstly we need to understand a story, one-day mahatma Gandhi is traveling by train. While boarding on that train he lost one of the sandals. The train is running, so it is not worth getting down to get the slipped sandal.

Gandhi had thought for a second and then he threw away the second sandal too. A colleague asked why he threw away the second one. On that question, Gandhi replied, “ one sandal is not going to do any good for me, but it might help someone with the other one.”

This story is not a small-scale charitable act of Gandhi, but the insight of this story is Gandhi knew what people in the world needed and what he needed to let go? This might be an important lesson for future learners, what the world needs and what they need to let go?

Information

Teachers are working hard at the work they do, they are a promising source of knowledge. For starters, most of the education is mastering large weight information that is not able to improve the skills expectancy of the learner. In the twenty-first century, we are not chained to the textbook format of knowledge, we are free to scroll the knowledge we want at our fingertips. That’s the reason online teaching and learning have been all the new rage.

The conventional curriculum is fixated with the cyclic rack. We need to invest an enormous amount of money in the elements of curriculum and textbooks. That is why the conventional curriculum suffers from a crowded garage effect.

It seems safer and easier to keep the old cycle repaired around, rather than throwing it away. As a result, multitudinous facts and ideas of curriculum’s lifeworthyness become spotty with time.

That’s where programs like eMaester are redefining the ways we perceive education. Instead of forcing teachers to follow a curriculum, this training organization is breeding a new type of teacher that focuses more on what the student needs and wants to learn.

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Achievements

Educators are not one to blame for all this mess, but they play an important role in building up the reservoir of knowledge in students as default. As educators are pushing learners towards the edge of mastering material, sometimes at the expense of relevance.

Knowing quadratic equations and names, positions of rivers in geography may not seem to be lifeworthy but it continues to shape the course of the history of the same subject offering lifelong usefulness, simply being more than crowded facts. The schooling system provides little insight into every subject to the starting learners building up the curiosity of the kids and making them unable to find their choice of mastery.

Learning maths as a subject is a good example, simple arithmetics leads to algebra and geometry then calculus with twists and turns, the subject hardly used by anyone. But it is useful for some of us. An education system like eMaester allows first-time learners to master the fundamentals of the specific field they want to specialize in.

The Objective is Learning not Teaching

Most of our traditional education focuses on teaching and not learning. According to a quote “when one teaches two learns” means learning is a two-way process that should be achieved by both students and teachers too.

In many schools memorization is mistaken for learning, most of that is short-lived. We forget that expecting things from elementary school kids for what they can do is easily achieved by machines, comparisons between machines and humans can not be simply scaled. We as adults put the fact that machines can do better work than humans when we must focus on the education that teaches humans can do better with the machines they create.

There are many ways of learning and teaching is one of them, it’s a great deal when we learn something independently and on our own. Sharing what we are learning and vice versa, going through trial and error, learning through the guidance of someone. Students should be offered wide ways to learn, at the stage of early school learning, as an adult we should be responsible for that.

Teaching is closely related to lecturing and talking, rather than explaining concepts. Explaining any concept leaves the explainer more enriched with the concept, with a deeper understanding. Because of that, the explainer must tear the concept into edible pieces that can be digested by the learner.

eMaester is therefore a one-of-a-kind platform where students and teachers get to interact and discusses topics rather than using the lecture (top-down) approach.

Conclusion

To conclude the whole article, the fundamentals of early schooling may be more or less similar for the future too. Even we progressed with technologies and switched to e-schooling. As the fundamentals are important to build upon the specialty identification and core concepts. We might argue that we are not using the information taught in schooling but now few do.

Also, the government is regulating the education standards according to the demand. Education should be more than just a bag of information and the basis of reading, writing. It should be skillful and life-worthy to use. As the story suggests the act of throwing the second sandal of Gandhi, we should also show the wisdom of throwing what we need to throw that might be useful for the world.

Throwing something away not because we don’t need it anymore or we have half of it, but throwing in the sense of knowing that someone with the other half would be able to use it as a whole. Making it more useful for the world.

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