Generation of Robots in Lebanon

Lebanon like North-Korea, Japan or China have one of the best education systems in the world. Children learn in primary school 3 languages (Arabic, French, & English) and some event more with Spanish. We teach our kids that excellence it's to know everything by head and to speak it out-loud in class.

And if our kids don't get good grades we yell at them and put all our salary in private tutors. Some of our kids become so genius and are always succeeding in school. And the message this kids get it's that all is easy, everything will always be fine if they learn it by head.

And for some of those kids it's really super easy for them to get good grades like that. And theirs parents so proud of them give them money, gift and tell them to nothing in the house else than studying so they don't have any independence and some of them at the age of 20 years old still don't know how to cook eggs or event how to do a sandwich. And the trouble's is that they are going to reach a point in their life where it's not going to be easy, and they will get lost. 

I think those kids we're creating actually have like a sort of Fixed Mindset Syndrome. You can see there more informations about this syndrome: http://michaelgr.com/2007/04/15/fixed-mindset-vs-growth-mindset-which-one-are-you/

 

They don't get any part-time jobs, or anything type of jobs when they are studying and some of them never worked until they get their college or event master degree, but like Businessinsider said : ''A diploma it's just a door to the work forces and may the best man or woman win.'' So with their fixed-mindset they still think everything will be easy with their GPA they will get every jobs they want, but actually in the real life this is not the case so they will get the felling like a bomb was trough in their face when they will finally woke-up of their illusion. And that is a really dangerous thing, I think, to send our kids out into the world with this.

And the questions is how we help this kids ? And that a very difficult question to answer when you think of the pressure of college admissions for that perfect transcript, or this perfect student.

And yet unfortunately, the college admissions system, isn't actually looking for growth right now but for robots student. And that the big problems with this news generation of ROBOT STUDENT we are creating: ''why parents would tell their children to be lest like a robot and to learn for fun, when college and university are just looking for that perfect transcript ?'' So we have created this fragile troubleshoots people more likely to get depression in the future in their life when thing will not be easy for them.

At the end what we must think as a parent or a teacher did we provide to our kids and the new generation with this type of education what they need to survive in this world ?

The solution is to teach our children lest with the textbook but more about life and to parents to give their children the change of independence by so work in the summer or doing task for their money in the house washing the car for example or just washing dishes like in the picture.