Education must be reformed.
Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba.
We have to reform education, we have to set an example, we have to think about what schools will look like in 20 years. It is because of this starting point that I opened this school, wanted to open a different school, a different school, and wanted to run a model for educational reform.
Therefore, if I still emphasize today, I feel that the children in the school have the wrong choice and have the opportunity to leave. On the first day, I told Alibaba employees that this is a different company I want to run, and what you believe in staying and insisting on not believing can leave at any time, this is our ideal. But this school is our idealism.
Today's education was established after the first industrial age, and was the mechanism and system that people 200 years ago designed for the future so many schools. 200 years have passed, and today we have to think about the next 2300 years.
Mankind has entered the era of quality economy, what is the school in the era of quality economy? 200 years ago our means of transportation were horse-drawn carriages, today we use cars and airplanes. 200 years ago, you bought things with silver dollars or paper money, today you use your mobile phone. 200 years ago to bring children together, teachers tell you to listen, education is still the same today.
200 years ago faced with the scarcity of choices, future children faced too many choices, the range of activities in the past was 5 kilometers, the current range of activities may be 50,000 kilometers. In the past, I thought that I would not be afraid to learn mathematics, physics and chemistry well and go all over the world. Now with artificial intelligence AI, education in the industrial age is for the assembly line, is standardized, books are the same as exams, faster than who counts, who remembers who is familiar with it. In the future, many standardization tasks will definitely be replaced by machines.
Today, you are worried that you will not be able to find a job, have you ever thought that the next generation of children you care about most will be completely eliminated in 30 years? If you don't change the way you train, if you don't change your way of education, it's too late to cry. The country now has fewer than 13 million children born each year, or about 1,300,800, and their education will affect the world.
What to see the country? Among these 14 million newborn children, probably the people who can really read, I think will not exceed 5%, that is, 6.7 million people are special students who can read, and the parents here have read books, and we know that some students how you rush, you can't catch him, this is probably less than 5%.
But we have 13 million ordinary children, and we need to create the conditions for them to excel in their respective fields, because these 13 million children may not be 10 million in the future, and they are our nation's most valuable resource.
The human brain is the most precious mineral and the most precious resource in the world. The development of the human brain depends entirely on the mode of teaching. Therefore, no matter for the country, every family, and the future era, we must think about what kind of path our children should take.