Philosophy of Education for Post COVID - 19 World
If we continue with the current system of education in the post COVID-19 world and expect different results, it is ridiculous. The governments are planning to introduce 'health and hygiene' into the school curriculum so as to fight against the rapidly transmitting virus. While it is a great move to make children imbibe habitual actions like maintaining hygiene, it is not enough. The Bigger Picture of Learning The current philosophy of education does not focus on making children understand how the world operates weaving a complex web, the codependency of us humans on other humans, animals, and nature and does not enable a child to assess the impact created by an action. For instance, the typical questions that a child studying history asked are: Who assassinated who? Which year did the war take place? And many more objective questions. I believe that we should start asking the questions other way around. Why did the aristocrat do the things he did? Are those actions f