Xiaobian saw an interesting news, the world's richest man Musk, has another title "American Academy of Engineering Academician".
On February 10, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) released the list of additional academicians of the National Academy of Engineering in 2021.
It is worth mentioning that the highest degree of Musk selected is only an undergraduate degree.
In response to this news, Musk forwarded the NAE Twitter article and expressed "ten thousand thanks" .
As for why, NAE wrote that SpaceX founder, CEO, and principal engineer, Musk, made breakthroughs in the design, engineering, manufacturing, and operation of reusable launch vehicles and sustainable transportation and energy systems.
In addition, in addition to winning this honor, Musk's contribution to electric vehicles is also indispensable, as a leader in the electric vehicle industry, Tesla led by Musk released the first model roadest, bringing electric vehicles into the public vision for the first time.
It is reported that a total of 111 academicians and 22 foreign academicians were selected this time. In addition to Musk, there is Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, LG Energy Solutions Michigan President Gray Denise, Apple Hardware Engineering VP Kathleen Bergeron...
There are also a number of Chinese shortlisted, such as Professor Fang Daining of Beijing Institute of Technology and Dr. Zhang Hongjiang, chairman of Zhiyuan Research Institute.
Founded in 1964, NAE is a non-profit, non-governmental organization in the United States affiliated with the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). NAE is responsible for carrying out the engineering projects needed by the country, oriented by education and research, recognizing and affirming the value and achievements of engineers.
The qualification of NAE academician is one of the most professional and highest level of evaluation criteria for engineers at present, which is used to commend those who have made breakthroughs in engineering research, engineering practice, engineering literature and other fields, or who have made outstanding contributions to innovation in the field of technology, major breakthroughs in traditional fields, and practical innovative methods to carry out engineering teaching.
Musk talks about education
The mission of future education must not be to cultivate many children with high scores, nor to train children to become learning machines, nor to cultivate children on the assembly line, we must let children become the best of themselves and become real people.
Musk believes that the ability to solve problems and think creatively is the quality that children need most.
In daily teaching, schools should divide the cultivation of problem-solving skills into 3 dimensions:
Bring real-world problems to the classroom
For example, when studying art, instead of talking about theory and technique, invite street artists to give lectures, or let children plan British art exhibitions.
Extreme emphasis on application and practice
For example, to test a child's computer skills, not to pass an exam, but to hold a large market event – let each child sell his own designed website.
Encourage your child to express themselves boldly
At the end of the school year, each child will give a TED talk, and 200 parents and professors will evaluate the child from the perspective of eyes, content, and persuasion.
Schools do not nurture gifted students in the traditional sense, but true future leaders. The era of artificial intelligence means a crisis, and smart people should choose to wait.
Musk once said that the achievements of each company are directly proportional to the difficulty of their "unique skills".
He also quoted this sentence to education: the realization of the greatest value of each child lies in the ability to do what others cannot do.
From this point of view, most of the students trained by the education system are things that can be easily replaced by others, and it is impossible to realize the greatest value of life.
Why is that?
Because the parents of children only care about "solving problems" - how to enter a prestigious school, but ignore the more important "asking questions". Asking questions is like finding direction. And the root cause of this is precisely that the education received by parents does not raise the question of this item. As a result, the most critical skill for children to master is problem solving, which is not only easy to be replaced by others, but also easier to be replaced by AI.
Musk said: "I had an existential crisis when I was twelve. Why is the world, and what is the point of existence? So I made the mistake of reading Nietzsche and, wow... Should not be read... Should read later... He had some problems. Then I read 'A Guide to the Galaxy', which is a great book about philosophy. We don't know what the answer is, the universe is the answer, but the question is what kind of question we should ask.
If parents want their children to achieve the greatest value in life, then the problem to be solved becomes how to achieve this goal?
Musk gives advice:
01.
Self-learning ability
Musk said: I didn't go to Harvard, but Harvard students worked for me.
There are 2 levels of self-learning ability: beginner and advanced.
■ Beginner: Task with standard answers - First Principles
First, you need to find an area of interest, and then grasp its laws from zero to one, using the laws to solve new problems.
The typical scenario is learning: 99% of students do not learn on their own, but do the more low-level "copy and paste" tasks.
Because I have never encountered a problem that I have never seen before. Only self-study can start from scratch, which is the first principle.
■ Advanced: Tasks without standard answers - rapid iteration
Interest is still paramount, and the secret to the task without a standard answer is to get feedback quickly through trial and error. The typical scenario is entrepreneurship.
Worldviews are cultivated from an early age and require an atmosphere of tolerance for mistakes, encouraging attempts to encourage reflection.
02.
High degree of freedom
The premise of cultivating self-learning ability is to explore in one's own fanatical field. Interest + the right approach can quickly master self-learning ability, even if it is advanced self-learning ability.
Today's children are probably the most lacking in freedom, and parents are particularly afraid of their children being "idle". As everyone knows, in order to gain freedom, you must pay a price, even if the child wastes 90% of his time, only 10% does something that he likes and is valuable, the reward is also very rich.
Finally, engineers are not only academically educated.
This time, if the newly promoted academicians are strictly divided according to "industry and education", the industrial field occupies an overwhelming proportion, and there are only a few schools or scientific research institutions.
Well-known industrial fields, including Musk and Nadella, do not have "doctoral" degrees.
As the highest academic honor in the most developed countries, it is also worth pondering whether it can not only be academically but also advocate practical innovation.
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