"We need to be teaching our children values, believing, independent thinking, teamwork, care for others...these are the soft parts."
“Only by changing education can our children compete with machines.” That’s what Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba believes. Alibaba is China’s largest e-commerce company. On some measures it is bigger than Amazon.com.Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Mr Ma said, “We cannot teach our kids to compete with machines. Teachers must stop teaching knowledge. We have to teach something unique, so a machine can never catch up with us.”
Don’t teach knowledge based things from the past 200 years
He continued, “Education is a big challenge now. If we don’t change the way we teach, we will be in big trouble in 30 years from now. Because the way we teach, the things we teach our kids, are the things from the past 200 years – its knowledge based. We need to be teaching our children values, believing, independent thinking, teamwork, care for others...these are the soft parts. The knowledge will not teach you that.”
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