IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATION?????.....

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My great grandfather, who was a marginal farmer,had just passed away, leaving my great grandmother a young widow with two sons and no sourceof income. To provide for her sons and their future,she had to move to a town nearby, and make some difficult choices. She became a domestic servant, but still couldonly afford to send one of her sons to school. While the two boys were close in age, bothin grade school, one was seen as being more responsible, while the other was a bit ofa troublemaker. My great grandmother opted to send the moreresponsible, diligent son, viewed as having more potential, into the workforce. He became a day laborer at a constructionsite. He would continue in that field for the restof his life, never given the opportunity to gain new skills and gain higher level employment. The other son was sent to the local school,and that boy was my grandfather. Despite being seen as the less responsible,he continued through school and eventually became a police officer. Despite entering the workforce nearly a decadeafter his brother, his starting salary was exponentially higher. It was my grandfather's education and theeventual career that enabled my father to pursue his own education, which eventuallyallowed me to follow my own passions. The opportunity my grandfather was given impactedthe trajectories of the generation to come. This personal story reflects that often repeatedadage, "talent is everywhere but opportunity is not." Today's event is about education and technology. More specifically, it is about empoweringthe students of today to create the world of tomorrow. We live in an amazing time of technologicalprogress. Every aspect of our lives, economies and societiesare being shaped by digital technologies. However, technology is also creating disruption. There's a growing concern over job growth,economic opportunity, and the world we are building for the next generation. The real question is how can technology createmore opportunity not for a few but for all. Addressing that question is core to our mission,to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. This is not just a set of words for us, butsomething we care deeply about. Our success is measured by others' success.

Democratizing educational opportunities speaksdirectly to our mission, and it's one of the most pressing societal challenges. Technology can amplify the work of dedicatedpeople and institutions, but rarely can substitute for it. Kentaro Toyama, a former researcher at Microsoft,and the author of the book, Geek Heresy, captures it best when he says, "that societal changerequires more than just technology." "Technocrats," a term that refers to them, havea tendency to extol the virtues of technology and view it as a remedy to all that ails thesystem. I'm here today as a heretic. We are under no illusion that technology aloneis the answer to transforming education. Dedicated administrators, great teachers,motivated students, and involved parents and communities are the ones changing education. And technology is merely a tool to empowertheir creativity, their ingenuity. It is this opportunity that motivates ourwork in education and everything you'll see today. One of my favorite parts of the job is tobe able to see and learn from the students all around the world. Over the past two years, I've had a chanceto visit students from 20-plus countries, to see students in Jakarta and Tel Aviv usethe same Office tools that my daughters use in Seattle, how teachers in Tokyo and Madridare using Minecraft to teach students computational thinking, how a group of young female studentsin Cairo were inspired to learn to code and built an app to assist the Syrian refugeesin their own community. I've been struck by the commonalities amongstthe students, their ingenuity, their thirst for learning, diversity, and dreams for future. As I've spent time visiting these classrooms,a few things stick out to me each time. First, technology should help, not hinderteachers' work in the classroom. Teachers have constant demands on their time. They must create curriculum, grade tests andpapers, manage classrooms, discipline, educate and inspire.

Each time I leave a classroom, the job ofa teacher makes my job look easy in comparison. Technology should make teachers' lives simplerand spark students' creativity, not distract from it. This is a top priority that we are focusedon at Microsoft. Today, you'll see how we're delivering anaccessible, streamlined platform readily available to all classrooms so teachers spend less timefocused on technology, and more time doing what they love doing -- inspiring students. Secondly, the nature of work is changing drastically. Much of work today happens in teams, withingroups of people working together to solve a problem, where the sum becomes greater thanthe parts. We need to prepare our students for this futureand enable team-based learning experiences in the classroom. Amongst groups of students, between studentsand teachers, between teachers and parents -- what you'll see today is how any classroomcan promote learning through collaboration, hubs for teamwork, personalized learning tools,and the ability to co-create. By empowering students to learn together,their educational opportunities get better. Third, we must prepare our students for tomorrow. Consider the report from the World EconomicForum and their Jobs Report. An estimated 65 percent of the students enteringschool today will have jobs that do not yet exist. Teachers know this. And they're hungry to equip their studentsfor this future. They know that computational thinking andproblem-solving skills are key to the future, but they also know that they need to takea much broader view of STEM by bringing STEM curriculum alongside reading, writing, design,and art will set these students up for success in the future. Throughout today's presentation, we will showyou new technologies designed to address these needs. And most importantly, how technology can empowerstudents and teachers to enhance learning outcomes and create a world of tomorrow. Lastly, democratizing educational opportunitymust be inclusive of everyone, not just a select few. To me, this is something that's deeply personal. This includes students with disabilities anddifferent learning styles. They must be given an opportunity to pursuetheir own dreams. Dyslexia is estimated to impact one in fivepeople. 72 percent of the classrooms of students withspecial learning needs. Reading is an essential competency. And once a student falls far behind, it'sdifficult to catch up. And it's just not about reading, you fallbehind in every other subject area. This is something that we aim to address withthe OneNote Learning Tools designed specifically to help students with dyslexia, but it canhelp students everywhere with their reading and writing skills. It's been incredible to hear the feedbackfrom the teachers using this to teach emerging first-grade readers, or from parents who haveexhausted their options, seeking help for their dyslexic children learning to read,or how a teacher in Macedonia used the learning tools to teach young students English. We will take a look at these learning toolsand much more as Terry Myerson joins me today to share more of the news. To close, I want everyone to imagine the worldwe're building for tomorrow. Just as my grandfather's opportunity changedthe trajectory of our family, this is what inspires me. How can we collectively come together to democratizethe educational opportunity for every student, both for this generation and the generationsto come?  Everyone agrees that education is hugely important The thing is we're not particularly sure what we want from it The aim of education should be to prepare us for the challenges of adult life Yet from this perspective it's clear that schools fail all but for tiny portions of their students Whether in highly academic private schools Or in deprived government-run ones trouble-dealing with life's challenges remains very wide spread indeed Human ingenuity, energy, goodwill, and talent is being lost on an industrial scale to get more ambitious about education doesn't necessarily mean spending more money building more schools, employing more teachers or making exams more difficult Rather, it should mean focusing more on the real purpose of education There are two fundamental tasks it should help us with: working and sustaining good relationships In order to address these needs a future national curriculum might specify that the following subjects be studied Firstly, capitalism A conspiracy of silence exists around the economic system we live within We find it hard to change its bad sides or defend its strengths because we simply don't fully understand how it works A subject like maths should be geared to teach its number one utility for 99% of the population dealing with money Such classes would demistify the global economy by teaching students the importance of the means of production and how profits are made The role of cashflow, HR leadership, marketing, and competition would also be studied In a perfect school system you'd also then study a really big second subject yourself Young students would be introduced to the idea that we humans are extremely prone to misunderstanding ourselves

They would be taken through the concepts of delusion, defensiveness projection and denial in everyday life Individual tutors would be on hand to help students towards personality maps with particular attention paid to their neurosis and fears Doing this would ensure that students learn a lot about how complex they truly are and what types of people they would be best suited to hang out with A crucial unit would be devoted to career self-knowledge What job are you best suited to? Students would spend three hours a week exploring what they might do with their futures Then we would sutdy relationships Being intensely aware of the social and individual cost of every unhappy relationship An ideal education system would emphasize the acquisition of skills that help people to live better together There would be units on kindness and forgiveness as well as on anxiety-reduction techniques In this educational utopia it wouln't only be children who would go to school but adults as well Schooling would be for life Education wouldn't just be taking place in classrooms media and the arts would be made to maximize their teaching potential and help to teach people what they actually need to learn We're so hung up on the challenges of running a massive education system we're failing to pinpoint the real source of its problems These are primarily about money, salaries or discipline These are only a consequence of a more fundamental problem Right now and with no-one quite meaning for this to happen we've simply got the wrong curriculum Thank you all very, very much. (Cheers, applause.)