Purpose by Design is so excited to introduce to you Dr. Shauli Mukherjee - an Indian native who is a director at Adamas University, a global thought leader and inspirational speaker. Her passion is education, where she’s worked for 23 years. She talks about the way things are old or backwards when it comes to education and the habits of teaching our kids the wrong things like competition instead of a collaborative mindset. She says the education system is at fault for a lot of these tendencies, as well as it is one of the few things that has not evolved like everything else. She also touches on intelligence versus emotion and how both are needed to be a productive member of society.
Dr. Shauli challenges the education system as it is today and pushes a new way of learning: STEM - a system that is about looking at and educating the whole person. It’s not just about getting textbook facts in the head. If we don’t know how to appropriate it - it does not drop down to who we are and it doesn’t change us then we continue with the same results - here we are in the century we are living in and the education is ancient. She talks about how schools will teach subjects separately and who's to say that you can’t teach history through music and drama? We can learn literature through movies and theater - it depends on a teacher’s creativity and how they amalgamate subjects to make sense to the kids.
She touches on how some kids just learn differently - our children do not require fixing - the only proper fixing is our old mindset - and we need to change the way we teach our kids. We should be celebrating our kids’ hard work when they put the effort in because it is teaching work ethic and grit. It is important that we focus on what is happening on the inside of our kids and not the outside. We need to focus on emotion, spirituality, social, adversity and not intelligence. Are we teaching our children how to deal with life, with a proper mindset or are we just shoving facts down their throats?
We need to be “in the now” - this is the most powerful moment. What you are creating right now is super powerful. Or are we teaching them to be stressed through our actions? We need to leave that worried zone - critical thinking is the ability to think in a very sane way. It means to think what is necessary and not let emotion get in the way. We were an idea in God, and now we are here with a purpose to fulfill.
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