For the post-70s and post-80s generations, entering famous schools, entering foreign companies, and becoming civil servants, no matter what their origins are, through personal struggle, they always have the opportunity to embark on the kind of middle-class life trajectory that their parents expect.
And our children, the environment and competition they face will be far beyond the comprehensible experience of our generation. The future is a highly connected, pervasive, intelligent world. Jobs that used to rely on IQ and experience will sooner or later be replaced by computers and robots. Unlimited storage and 3D devices have made their way into the home. I wanted to search for how many years it would take to overcome the barriers between human languages through technology, only to find that this year has been born a mobile phone tool that can translate in real time....
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The professional environment in 2045 will shift from the information age to the conceptual age, and the changes will be more, more violent, faster, and more unpredictable, and it is a career centered on happiness and self-realization. We all hope that children do not lose at the starting line, so our current education of children can really make them competent for such a rational decline, concept increase, profession, industry, career are changing rapidly, and truly pursue happiness, rather than the pursuit of success? What kind of education will the masters of the future world need?
What is education?
Let's start with a question about how the English word for education, Education, came about. The word was invented by Socrates and is spelled with three roots, with the preceding "E" meaning outward, "duce" being the guide, and the "tion" being the noun, guiding out. The so-called education is to truly guide a person's heart and help him grow into his own form.
Tell a story that better illustrates a good idea like "leading out." A U.S. federal courthouse with two people sitting in front of her, a 4-year-old black girl and her mother. They happily held up the newspaper, and the words on it read: The Supreme Court today banned apartheid in secondary schools. The photo was taken in 1956, when the little girl was denied the opportunity to go to a white school in her community. Because at that time, white schools and black schools could not be mixed.
Her father, a lawyer, sued in anger. The lawsuit went all the way to the U.S. Federal Court, where six justices sat together to discuss whether separating blacks from whites was against the U.S. Constitution. It was also the first time psychology had been cited as a surveying discipline. Through experiments, it was seen that when whites and blacks were separated, although the child was only four years old, it was still clear that white people were better than blacks. So these justices made a conclusion, which is also the most famous education act of 1956 in the United States.
The bill's author is brown, and for the first time, Judge Brown has clearly articulated the idea of education in a legal document: education is to help a child more successfully seek his own happiness in his future life, (note that it is his own happiness, not his family,not their school.) And education is not about shaping a proper screw for the social machine.
When I saw this sentence, people could not help but burst into tears: everyone was educated from childhood to adulthood, not to become a screw of a social machine, but to lead out, let the best self in people's hearts come out. Education should be about listening to the child's voice, helping him become himself, and helping him find the happiness he wants in his future life.
What kind of world will the future be?
Now all our education hopes that children will not lose at the starting line, but what kind of world will the future be? Do you realize when today's elementary school students really need the ability to be taught in elementary school at the peak of their lives? In fact, it is not the time of the college entrance examination, but the age of 35, when he is at the peak of his career, he needs to use some interpersonal skills learned from childhood to adulthood. Therefore, the talent we are talking about today is to adapt to the society of 35 years old, that is, 2040, not to adapt to the talents at the age of 16 and 18 when they take the college entrance examination.
So what kind of world is the future world, and what kind of life are today's children pursuing at that time? Is it possible that every child has not lost at the starting line, and the future is actually a swimming competition? We tried to make him run desperately to a starting line, but in fact, there is no need to run in the future, and a new rule may appear.
What should the occupational environment look like in 2040? The first to shift from the information age to the conceptual era, this is the chess king vs. the deep blue computer, that is, a computer and a chess king played 6 games, and now it is 3 to 3. Looking at another picture, four years ago Foxconn decided to robotize the entire Foxconn, these robots do not sleep for 24 hours, do not jump jobs and do not complain, and will not ask for salary increases. In the past 20 years, many important jobs in the information age will be greatly replaced by computers in the next 20 years, and by that time, all those who do these jobs are likely to lose their jobs. For example, the bank teller that many people are flocking to now, after five or ten years, this position will be less and less, and if you don't have other skills, it will be very embarrassing.
Logical analysis is at the heart of the information age, but what is the conceptual age? It is a highly conceptual and highly emotional talent. McKinsey, for example, is the world's largest corporate consulting firm, with 67 percent of its employees having MBAs in 1993 and dropping to 41 percent in 2003. Now that 10 years have passed and continue to decline, who fills McKinsey's top-minded MBAs? It was McKinsey that added a lot of MFA (Master of Fine Art), which is the Master of Fine Arts. McKinsey realized that their survey reports had to be expressed in an artistic way, so many MFAs slowly replaced MBAs.
What's more interesting is that there are several companies that have been very popular lately, one is Apple, what does Apple rely on, rely on programmers, rely on engineers? No, it depends on good ideas, does it rely on concepts to win? The second millet, what does millet rely on? There is no strong product factory behind Xiaomi, but the core is to rely on a strong sense of fan marketing and participation, is it operated by perception, is it based on logic? Another example is Haidilao's service. When the information age advances to the conceptual age, those who originally relied only on knowledge and logic will gradually be replaced by computers and depreciated more and more, and those who can only be done by people can really be done. Calculations can be done by computers, but ideas cannot.
Change will be more, harder, faster, more unpredictable. In 2010, the average life expectancy of Chinese smes was 2.97 years, the world's top 500 was 40 years, and the world's top 1,000 was 30 years, and how long is your career? If you start working at 25 and retire at 65, that's 40 years. This means that if you start a business as soon as you graduate and become a Fortune 500 company, the year you retire, the company just fell.
So when the world's top 500 companies only have a life expectancy of 40 years, you will understand better that the future child cannot change jobs, and he will definitely change at least five to seven jobs in his life, and change two or three industries. In fact, not only the life of the company is short, but also the fate of the industry. A lifetime in a company, an industry will become more and more difficult, this time if we still teach him during college, do you think it is possible to curse him and harm him?
A career centered on happiness and self-actualization. The GDP of China and the United States, the average GDP of Chinese in 2008 was 3400 US dollars, and in 2013, the average GDP was 6470 US dollars per capita. It is expected that by 2016 Chinese average GDP will reach 8,000 US dollars, and the GDP of China and the United States will be close in 2025 and flat in 2040. Unfortunately, since 1994 of the last century, the average happiness of Chinese has not increased significantly, and even declined in a few years. I don't think I need to give data on this, everyone already feels it.
Why are the 3000 and 8000 DOLLARs data so important? Because there is a very important phenomenon in economics, it is found that 3,000 US dollars is the boundary of a country's modernization, which means that a country and a nation have broken free from poverty and begun to live a well-off and happy life, so China probably passed the well-off in 2008. Eight thousand dollars is also an inflection point recognized in economics, after which there is no significant positive correlation between happiness and economic returns, which means that in another year or two, no matter how much money we make, we will not be happier. Our happiness doesn't start to rise with our income.
So the next generation will certainly not be like our generation, pursuing a house, pursuing a sense of security, pursuing survival, pursuing money, but for what? They will really start to pursue happiness in our place, which is a little extravagant for us in this life. This is actually in line with Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Maslow's hierarchy of needs is divided into three: survival at the bottom, social interaction in the middle, and self-actualization at the top. The main needs of a person are in the period of 14 to 18 years old, and his needs will slowly solidify.
What are the main needs of the post-60s generation? Their childhood experienced natural disasters and the early stages of the Cultural Revolution, so the core of this group of people is the need for survival and respect. The post-70s are not the same, the people in the first half of the post-70s have idealism, because at that time everyone was poor, but the people in the second half began to go to the sea and began to pursue success, so the post-70s generation is the most entangled generation in China, he is particularly romantic, poet, and then earn money for a while, which is the most tangled.
The post-90s are completely different, do the post-90s have a sense of safety? No. Is there a need to be identified? The post-90s are the first to publicly admit on the Internet that they are brain-dead and dick-dick, and admit that the other party is a goddess. Psychologically, a person's heart must be extremely strong to dare to debase himself to this look. The post-90s generation has long been concerned by parents, grandparents, grandparents and grandparents every day, and the sense of identity has exploded. So the post-90s present a strong need for self-realization, although this is very troublesome to us, but from a good point of view, if the entire family as a person, in fact, the post-90s is to achieve the entire family from the beginning of the sense of security to self-realization, the need to be recognized, although a little naïve, but their pursuit of personal growth and sense of existence is a historical trend, and the external environment is completely in line with.
Speaking of which, do you think your education is in line with this era? As far as your education of children is concerned, can they really make them competent for such an era? Competence in such a rational decline, the concept of increase, the profession, industry, career are rapidly changing, the real pursuit of happiness, rather than the pursuit of success in the era, your education is competent?
What education do the owners of the future world need?
So let's talk about how to do it. What do future owners need? The first goes from rationality to sensibility. The famous futurist Daniel Pinker says there are six skills for the future: a sense of design, the ability to tell a story, the ability to integrate things, the ability to empathize, and the ability to play, you need to find a sense of meaning. To put it simply, when we are equal to the per capita GDP of the United States in 2045, the people who live well should be like this: tasteful, can tell stories, can cross borders, have a taste, can play, and have a little small pursuit of their own.
If it had been in the 90s, parents might have advised their children to choose civil servants, bank tellers and civil engineers. Because a skill is hidden, there is an organization, there is a unit, there is a skill to hide the safest. In recent years, parents may have encouraged their children to study international trade, finance, and computer engineering. But in 2040, the most core and excellent group of people in society must be engaged in a career that integrates humanities and technology, such as product managers, directors, and tourism designers, which is the general trend of the future.
There is also the transition from planning to creation. Let's look at a famous case, in 1953, Harvard University once did a survey on the results of goals for life, found that 27% of people have no goals, 60% of people have vague goals, 10% have clear goals but are relatively short-term, and 3% have clear and long-term goals. After 25 years, the group that found that the longer the target, the better they lived, with 3 percent becoming the top and 27 percent living badly. But after investigation, it was confirmed that this was a story made up from beginning to end. Why are the stories made up so widespread? Because it is in line with our judgment of error, we always hope that the future will be planned, planned, and set, and parents hope that their children can be fixed very early and not move.
In the future, the biggest harm you will do to your child is not to let him do it when you need to make the most important decision, not to let him do it in elementary school, not to let him do it in college, not to let his daughter-in-law pick it, not to let him choose the house, and to help him find a job. So by the time he was 35, when he was really faced with a change in his career, you didn't know anything, and he didn't make a choice once. So a really appropriate attitude to life today is that adaptation is more important than planning, and we should encourage children to make a three- to five-year plan that is enough, and then have a strong ability to integrate across borders, stay curious, embrace change, and create a career they like at the right time.
The trend is to make sure that your child has the ability to be happy. In a world where not everyone can succeed, be sure to have the ability to make your child happy. Happiness is meaningful happiness. Einstein succeeded in creating a work method that played to his strengths, some people could turn interest into their passion, and others found the sense of meaning behind the work. All of this can make you feel that although work is not the most successful, it must be happier, because in today's internet age, no one sees themselves as the most successful.
To tell another true story, a friend was eating at a snack bar, walked into a middle-aged man, carrying a violin, followed by a little girl, and at a glance, he knew that he had just participated in a small performance, but the little girl was unhappy.
It turned out that this little girl had just taken the third level exam for the violin and had not passed the exam. Her father said, "When my father signed you up for this violin class, he didn't want you to pass the grade." Dad just hopes that one day you grow up, Dad is not around you, you feel unhappy, open the case, help yourself to play a song, that familiar music comes out, surrounds you, as if Dad is still around you. I hope you have a hobby like this that will accompany you at this moment. ”
The ability to make yourself happy is also extremely important, especially in a world where information is transparent and it is impossible for everyone to succeed, and you must help your child get this ability.
Future protagonists have several skills. The first is to have perceptual thinking, not just rational thinking. The second should have career resilience and creativity, more than planning ability. The third should have the ability to make yourself happy, let yourself succeed, when not successful, you can also be happy, from strong to beautiful is the direction of future child training, we have to cultivate a lot of beautiful people.
Finally, a very important story, the protagonist of this story is Einstein, in the 60s, there was a Princeton University student, he was a school newspaper reporter, one day received a task to interview Einstein.
It just so happens that the student is a physics student, and you can imagine a physics student being able to interview Einstein, who was thrilled. After reading all of Einstein's interviews, he found that none of the questions were really asked by people who understood science, and he vowed to ask Einstein a real wisdom question as a physics student, to dig out Einstein's true wisdom. He read in a large library with a huge ceiling and green chandeliers above the table. Reading until two or three o'clock in the evening, suddenly an inspiration touched his head, there was a wonderful problem, he carefully copied this problem down, folded in half and folded in half, put it in the left pocket in front of him, and went home to sleep.
At half past two o'clock the next afternoon, he went to find Einstein, ran to Einstein's small building and knocked on the door, and the door opened, and Einstein stood in front of him, just like in the photo, Einstein had an exploding head, wearing a pajama, underneath the wool slippers, stepping on the khaki carpet. Einstein nodded at him and motioned for him to enter, holding a pipe in his left hand. The young man walked with him down the hallway and into the living room. The living room is about ten square meters, there is a sofa, there is a coffee pot next to the sofa, is brewing coffee, making a grunting sound, the whole room is filled with the smell of magical coffee and tobacco mixture. Many years later, when the young man remembered that afternoon, he remembered the magical smell of tobacco and the mixture of coffee.
Einstein sat down, and the young man asked: As the greatest scientist of our time, what do you think is the most important scientific question of our time? I don't want you to have answers, I just want to know what are the most important scientific questions of this era. Einstein said, well, that's a good question. The young man was very happy, thinking that I had embarrassed Einstein, so he waited for Einstein to answer. Einstein's eyes were closed, time passed very slowly, dust flew in the light, and the room smelled of coffee beans and tobacco.
After about 15 minutes, Einstein looked at the young man with a twinkle in his eye, and the young man knew he had the answer, and he said what the answer was. Einstein said young people, if there's really anything about the most important scientific question, I think it's whether the world is good or evil. The young man said, Mr. Albert Einstein, is this not a religious issue? Einstein said no, because if a scientist believes that the world is evil, he will spend his whole life inventing weapons, creating barriers, creating things that hurt people, creating walls, separating people farther and farther away.
But if a scientist believes that the world is good, he will spend his whole life inventing connections, creating links, inventing things that connect people more and more closely. Having said all this, Einstein closed his eyes, and the young man knew he had the answer, and he got up gently, walked through the corridor, and closed the door, and the answer was published in the newspaper the next day, and it also affected a lot of people, and this young man was later one of the founders of the Internet.
So in terms of career, if there's anything most important, it's not technology, it's not what capabilities we need in the future, it's not what technical methods we have, it's what your confidence in the future looks like. Everything is future-oriented, so your belief in the future world is the most important educational belief. If a parent or a teacher believes that the future is good, then he teaches children to open up possibilities, to create possibilities, to try more, to experience wonderful.
But if a parent and teacher believes that the future is bleak, they will teach their children to protect themselves, start reading to death, survive those exams, find a stable job, and be an honest and mediocre person. So your judgment of this future world is actually the most important topic about career education. For everyone!
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