Most Likely To Succeed Analysis

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The foundation for a core documentary, two leading experts, are sounding an urgent call to reimagine the American education so as to equip the students to embrace the realities of the twenty-first-century economy. Tony Wagner and Ted Dintersmith, the authors of “Most Likely to Succeed” want us to stop thinking that success for our children is based on the test scores, but instead start concentrating on actual learning, creative problem-solving, as well as the joy of discovery. Also instead of merely troubleshooting the challenges of our education system, the authors also provide a solution in the form of a fully re-imagining of what a high-quality education for all should look like. This book Most Likely to Succeed is very useful …show more content…

Perhaps the credentials are being sued because they are the tangible and they are what the country has utilized for a long time basically to determine who is smart and who is not. What is being experienced however in the world of business where the focus is on results and outcomes is a quick transition from the conventional academic credentials to finding better ways of assessing the core competencies of the applicants. The authors also write about the Y Combinator as a way of moving away from the credentials to the more skills-based assessment of one’s suitability for the job. According to them, this transition from false credentials to more genuine competencies that cannot only be observed but also assessed is the most crucial move we are witnessing in the workplace. They claim that this is what is likely to transform …show more content…

The book provides the parents and educators with a fundamental guide to getting the best from their kids and a roadmap for opinion leaders and policymakers. The issue the authors have determined is a real one, although there is no single system can work for everyone, and the authors presume that Rebecca or Bill Gates or Steve Jobs (or Wagner or Dintersmith) are the ultimate desirable models of success. This leaves whole classrooms with gifted memorizers as well as regular humans who never aspired to be or can never even be a Bill Gates. Although it does not offer a clear roadmap on how to go in making every child become an entrepreneur, the book is a commendable prose for the teachers and policy makers in the education system, and I think that if implemented it can improve the education system by a great

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