In business, it slowly begins to penetrate, the awareness that the educational system in the Netherlands only delivers non-critical school leavers and critical early school leavers. Both school leavers made a drawing at school around their 11th year of life, and it was already noticeable that the creativity in the drawing was going down the drain.
Scientific Research conducted by the Education Gouvernment Inspectorate in the school year 2015-2016 among eight- groups for “artistic development” showed that these eleven and twelve-year-olds make less detailed drawings than twenty years before. They draw more schematic, and more often separate elements of a drawing assignment than to imagine a whole story (see here my recurrent plea for linear thinking and circular thinking)
Causes are given by various people and agencies with diverse expertise.
- The PABO school for teachers says the blames the lack of drawing lessons at school
- The professional writer blames the rise of digitization.
- The designer of the “boys school” L. Woltring was at a tv programm called Nieuwsuur to promote his school. He denounces the disadvantage of boys in education. I met him personally and he his expertise is boys at school.
If you look at the new initiatives for schools, look rather at the content of the school instead of granting schools to gender, faith or, or. I think the name of the boys school is badly chosen. But read the spearheads of the school. Sports creates brain dust that contribute to focus and relaxation and a sense of happiness. This effects boys and girls in a positive way. For your memory, creativity and your health. I warmly welcome the initiative! But by naming it a boys school, you’ll end in a discussion that does not touch the essence of the need for other education, but just creates different parties. In this case, boys versus girls.
I see the cause more in an umbrella whole. All of the causes mentioned are part of the whole, but we have to go to a higher level. Also, remember that the people, including myself, also come from the same school system. That’s also part of the cause.
I will present you a short story about the generation of human development
It has long been known in science that nature and nurture definitely affect our brain. Not next to each other, but diverse. After all, one person is influenced to a greater degree than the other. I will explain the definitive nature of the change by the example of Juultje briefly and simplistically:
A child (we call it Juultje) is born with a mindset (nature) and with mindset I literally mean physically the brain. Juultje is educated by the parents and enjoys education at that moment (nurture). Nurture literally changes the mindset of Juultje. Juultje becomes a teacher, using her current mindset (nature and nurture). Juultje gets children, they inherit Juultje’s mindset (nature) or other biological parent or genetic grandpa and grandmother. The children of Juultje enjoy education by Juultje and education at that moment (nurture), and this continues with the birth of each child. Influence of nurture has direct influence and a reinforcing effect on the next generation. By narrowing education and looking at kpi’s in education, there is less self-awareness in education, less self-responsibility is taken, less creativity. Children need to fit into that system, and so the less fitting children are likely to fall outside that system and try to adopt the system. Fear is a bad counselor. Children will and must develop on competencies that don’t fitt there abbilities. They will be less happy and will excellerate less.
If this development of our education system continues, I also see the following in the Netherlands. The appropriate get very successful (read: a lot of money, a lot of power) and the less fittables (no money, no power) find each other. It is not the contradiction in power and money that connects, but the agreement is concealed in oblivion from fear that connects them. The examples we see in other continents around us.
From this point of view, I would like to call for the “intergroup” facilitation. Look at human (the child) and facilitate custom-made. That is investing in a diverse future, in education, science, society.
There is not one teaching truth. Education must be on the agenda of all political parties. Education should be facilitating all children. Education, like humans, should constantly be subject to change with the aim of equal opportunities for each unique person.