Your son is a failure He's barely passing my class and with grades like this. I'm just not sure what kind of future he's gonna have What do you have to say for yourself? You're supposed to graduate this year Listen to Mrjohnson What kind of future do you think you're gonna have?
With all due respect Don't call me a failure Failure is an event, not a person in fact And you talk about the future Mr Johnson, But you're not preparing us for that Excuse me? Just listen to what I'm saying This should be good Would you agree that In the future Most careers will become automated? Yeah.
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So the people who succeed will have to be Curious Innovative with resilient to adapte to new changes What's your point ? My point is, the focus in this school is not on that it is on that it is on regurgitating information and tests taking And that's just real. .
. but in today's world creativity is the most important leadership skill. Oh, that's how you feel.
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you feel you don't have to believe me but maybe you will believe the 1,500 executives who recently said creativity is the most important leadership skill see pretty soon no one will be hired because of what they know because who cares what you know or if you've memorized the fact we've got Google and Siri for that in the future people will be hired because of what they can do with their knowledge can they creatively solve real-world problems not just follow instructions or directions and Bubble in a multiple-choice questions so mom that's why I'm stressed cuz these robotic tasks we learned in school should stop because no one can do a robot's job better than a robot billionaire founder of Alibaba Jack Ma said that we should not compete with artificial intelligence but instead focus on developing unique human intelligence mr. Johnson drills are for teeth not the human mind so these repetitive knowledge-based tasks we must leave behind or in the future you're gonna find a lot of people graduating out of your class right into the unemployment line see many top companies today don't look at grades Mon that old way is expiring Google has been quoted as saying GPAs are worthless criteria for hiring founder of Tesla Elon Musk agrees so I say this with unease and sorrow if you continue to teach today as you taught yesterday then you rob us students of tomorrow mr. Johnson I'm gonna keep it real with you sometimes sitting in your class is tough I'm constantly thinking that if I don't look up at the clock maybe it'll speed up so I listen to you do my work and pay attention feeling like an hour had to have gone by but it was only three minutes so if you wonder why we're bored in class look you want to get a kid to hate reading give them this a school textbook and some people think it's all falling and that hurts me they say you can lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink and to that I say no firstly you could put salt in that horse's hay and make them thirsty and if you bring joy in your classroom and you can make any bad student, nerdy as he or she discovers the beauty of truly learning mr.
