The views on the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) expressed in interviews with Gauteng education MEC Panyaza Lesufi are scary.
It seems the idea is to prepare our children to be able to use contraptions that will be designed and created by someone somewhere, perhaps God himself. Nothing in what the MEC says suggests that there are any plans to nurture creativity, imagination or critical thinking in our children through education. The MEC speaks of “driver’s licences” when self-driving cars are being developed. He talks of chalk being replaced by tablets in teaching instead of using chalk and blackboards to teach children how to design a tablet. It is lost to the MEC that critical thinking helps children become agents of change and instils self-belief so they are able to create and innovate...
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