7 Skills students need for their future

In this video Dr. Tony Wagner, author the global achievement gap brings out the problems faced by todays generation in education as well as continual learning ,and also he explores about how can those problems be overcome and improved. The basic reason why the students in colleges as well as in high schools are not engaged and interested in education,as they grow up the less curious they become? They lack the critical thinking and problem solving techniques. The best thing is that they should be inspired to think and write about their problems earlier than they face them and also they must be asked to analyze their current situations and how to deal with critical situations on their life in future. As the students make their problems ,more important than any other thing and find it best to drop out of college or school in order to solve their problems, when in fact ,this is the biggest problem they put themselves in , that is dropping out. Dropping out does not solve problem but in fact creates more problems for them in future.Dr. Tony also explains that why the multiple choice systems ruins the problem solving skills as well as imagination of the students.The reasoning skills of the students are weakened due to this.This also further effects them in their personal life as when faced with any critical situation , they do not know how to deal with it in a healthy way. He gives us an example of a student who was passionate to become scientist but when the education system did not meet his expectations , he just gave up on his passion of being a scientist , as his desire got burned out. the education system nowadays is more of isolated one in which the students are engaged and connected outside of school , but totally isolated inside of school. They have better connections and are more social outside of school than they are inside.To fix this problem the colleges and schools need to bring in more mutual engagement to understand the needs of the students.This is not that, todays generation does not want to do, but the actual problem lies in the fact that they loss patience easily ,as this era is very very quick . Everything is too quick in todays world that when they think that their expectations are not being met in the college they just find the easy way to drop out and start finding any alternate way to bring their desires and dreams to reality.Todays students want proper reason for everything they are being taught, that How can this subject help me in building my career ,but when they do not get appropriate answer to their questions they get frustrated and find college worthless.This can be one of the reason of dropping out of college along with many others.Dr. Wagner gives a very helpful advise to videotape the responses of students while in college or after they graduate, and it is very important to analyze their responses as , he says that it could be that some of their responses can be hard to hear. I like the quote he reasons in the end of the lecture, that, "Education is most isolated profession in modern worklife and isolation is the enemy of improvement".