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ต่อจาก คคห 5
ในขณะที่ประเทศอื่นๆหลายประเทศที่ใช้ภาษาอังกฤษเป็นภาษาที่หนึ่งรวมทั้งประเทศที่เคยเป็นเมืองขึ้นอังกฤษอย่างเช่นอินเดียเป็นต้น พวกเขาก้าวหน้าไปไกลกว่าไทยหลายเท่าแล้ว คือแทนที่จะเสียเวลาฝึกครูสายพันธ์ใหม่ เขาใช้ digital media ซึ่งใช้สอนวิชาต่างๆได้ทั้งหมด ที่ค้นได้จาก google มาสอนเด็กๆกัน
"ดังนั้นประเทศเหล่านี้ จึงไม่มีปัญหาเรื่อง ครูด้อยคุณภาพเหมือนประเทศไทย...!!!"
จนกระทั้่งชาวอังกฤษคนหนึ่งชื่อ Ian Gilbert ซึ่งอยู่ในแวดวงการศึกษา ที่คิดแหกคอกมากๆ ตั้งคำถามขึ้นมาว่า
"ถ้าใครๆก้อเรียนจาก google ได้ แล้วจะมีครูเอาไว้หาพระแสงอ้ันใดกันล่ะ...???!!"
จนมันดลใจให้ Ian Gilbert เขียนหนังสือเพื่อบอกว่า เมื่อโลกเราเข้าสู่ยุค digital media แล้ว ครูจะยังทำหน้าที่อะไรได้บ้างล่ะ...เรายังไม่ได้อ่านหนังสือเขาทั้งเล่ม แค่่อ่านเคร่าๆแบบผ่านๆไปน่ะ...แต่เราเดาได้ว่า
"น่าจะเป็นแทนที่ครูจะสอนวิชาต่างๆให้เด็กๆเหมือนสมัียพระเจ้าเหานะ กลับกลายเป็นว่าครูสอนให้เด็กค้นข้อมูลเพื่อการเรียนรู้ได้ด้วยตนเอง...!!!??"
Ian Gilbert ตั้งชื่อหนังสือเล่มนี้ว่า
"Why Do I Need A Teacher When I've Got Google"
เราคัดข้อความจากหนังสือเล่มนี้ มาให้อ่าน เพื่อพวกเราจะได้จับตามองดูกันว่าแวดวงด้านการศึกษาของประเทศอื่นเขาก้าวไปไกลขนาดไหน ด้วยความคิดแหกคอก ต่างจากแนวคิดเดิมๆ...
ึเราคิดว่าเป็นหนังสือที่ทุกคนในวงการศึกษาของไทยควรอ่าน...ถ้าอยากแก้ไขปัญหาด้านการศึกษาของไทยด้วยการ "Think out of the box." แทนที่จะเป็นดักดานแบบพายเรือวนอยู่ในอ่างเหมือนเดิมๆ...นะ...!!!
คำนำเขาน่าทึ่ง สุดๆเลยหละ เขาบอกว่า
*****This book is not designed to help you teach better. But it is intended to help you become a better teacher.*****
ลองมาดูบทที่มันที่สุดกัน คืออันนี้
Chapter 3 (คัดมาแค่บางส่วนของบทนี้)
The Great Educational Lie
In a conference room in London in 2004 the great American business guru Tom Peters addressed 500 of the UKs top business leaders, the future employers of your students (people like Woolworths, MFI, Northern Rock, Whittards, Principles, you know the sort
). But I dont think they listened. One of his messages was this one:
Never hire the people with exceptionally high grades at university and secondary school.
(Tom Peters, Live in London, Red Audio)
His argument revolves around a basic syllogism that I develop further in chapter 7:
To do well at school means you play by the rules.
To succeed in business you need to break the rules.
Ergo
If all your employees did well in school, your business is doomed.
Tom Peterss message is reassuring for me as it resonated with what I had been trying to get across to the educational world for a long time, something I call The Great Educational Lie.
We tell our children, Do well at school and youll get a good job, but theres a twist in the logic there that just doesnt hold water. I have met too many young people who simply expect to be given a good job just because theyve done well at school. Weve all met people who are qualified but havent a clue. Big hat, no cattle, as they say. And then when they fail that first job interview they are devastated. How could this happen, I did everything I was told to do and Im a straight A student?!
Whats more, just because you get a good job doesnt mean you get to keep the good job, especially if youre not up to scratch. Weve, also, all met people who are as qualified as they are incompetent. When was the last time you heard the personnel department discussing a dubious employee and reassuring themselves, Shes costing the company thousands but you should see her key stage two SAT results? Of course, having great qualifications can open up many great jobs in the same way that having no qualifications can lead to a life of poverty and underachievement. But there is not a direct causal link, at least not in the West. There are people with great qualifications and no jobs, or lousy jobs, and there are many, many examples of people with no qualifications and great jobs. In other words, qualifications alone are not the maker or breaker of careers. Were back to attitude and a whole range of other skills like emotional intelligence, communication and creativity.
And if you decide you would rather not take the word of some American business guru, then how about this from David Frost, the head of the British Chamber of Commerce speaking in August 2007:
Employers want someone who does the job and if necessary they will train them to do a particular task and give them one to one training
Qualifications actually come pretty low down the agenda.
Yet, in schools, we still perpetuate The Great Educational Lie do well at school and youll get a good job. Remember, nobody is saying here dont bother getting qualified. Theres a great line from Bill Gates I share with young people, Get the best education you can and keep on learning and thats relevant whether youre 7, 17, 27 or 57. Another thing I do is get them to write the word learning on their paper and then ask them to put their finger over the l. What have you got? I ask them. (Ning! came back the reply once. Pesky kids with mittens
.)
An article in The Economist in 2006 entitled The Battle for Talent stated that, The bottom line is you can buy almost ten Indian brains for the price of one American one and this is something supported by a story in Fortune magazine that same year. The biggest threat from outsourcing wasnt to factory workers but those college-educated desk workers who were looking more outsourceable by the day. After all, as the article points out, you cant outsource truck driving. In 2004, graduate earnings had dipped by 5.2 per cent whereas the pay packets of high school graduates had risen by 1.6 per cent. Again, the article wasnt encouraging people not to get an education, but it was a shot across the bows of those perpetrating The Great Educational Lie:
Higher education still confers an enormous economic advantage. Just not as enormous as it used to be!
(Fortune, 20/3/06)
Several years ago I interviewed James Dyson and posed the following question to him. You have two students in front of you about to leave school one has stacks of qualifications, all A grades, and the other, Mr Dyson, has none. (Interestingly in schools we talk about young people who leave the education system with nothing, when what we mean is they leave with no qualifications. If you have over a decade of failure in the same system, you dont leave with nothing do you? Have a think about what is in the emotional suitcase if you will of the children who leave our care with no qualifications. I suggest that what they leave with is no qualifications and a whole crate full of baggage about how bad they are. Which isnt nothing. Nothing would be us in education, who oversaw that decade, getting off lightly.) Anyway, Mr Dyson, what would be your response? To the students with the grades he said he would say, Youve shown youve got a brain, now go away and use it. In other words, youve shown theres something there, now the work really starts. Before I tell you what he said he would say to those with no qualifications let us look at another, more hidden, more pernicious conclusion to be drawn if we choose to promote The Great Educational Lie. If you can only get a good job by doing well at school then, because I havent done well at school, it is clear that I will never have a good job. How many people leave your school at the age of 16, about to set off on lifes path, less than a quarter into their one chance on this planet, but already feel they are doomed to a life of failure, lack and subservience? How many people have you met who see themselves as thick or stupid or incapable of achieving anything of any worth because I didnt do very well at school? What is your message to the young people, the sweetcorn kids, who have gone through the entire system and come out pretty much in the same state as when they went in? Serves you right? You should have listened? I cant help you now! Or maybe you can tell them what Mr Dyson would tell them if he were there: It doesnt matter.
Now, again, before you throw out your dual cyclone, hes not advocating widespread academic failure. The James Dyson Foundation website encourages people to apply to them for jobs if you are a graduate. But hes also a realist and a pragmatist who knows, from his own experience at school apart from anything else, that school is a narrow little academic tunnel and there is a far bigger picture out there once you get out of school if only you can hang onto your self-worth and your sense of ambition as you go through it.
School, in other words, is just a phase you're going through.
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