Jack Ma, CEO of Alibaba was asked at the World Economic Forum in Davos, how he stands as a trained teacher on education. There followed an exciting plea: “Being a teacher does not mean ‘I know better than you’, but ‘I know better because I learned from others’. A teacher should never stop learning. “He adds,” Let’s not change how we teach, then we’ll have big problems in 30 years. “He justifies his statement with digitization, which could destroy up to 800 million jobs by 2030. “We can not teach children what machines can do better.”
The education system is based on conveying the knowledge of the past 200 years, according to the chairman of the largest trading group in the world. Jack Ma advocates that children should learn something unique that machines can never do. He makes examples. Important are: “Values, beliefs, independent thinking, teamwork, compassion – things that are not mediated by pure knowledge.”
But how then? The company founder is convinced: “Sport, music, painting, art (….). This is how we make sure that people are different. Everything we teach has to be different from machines. If machines can do better, we have to think about it. ”
Why is this a successful CEO statement?
The discussion and the arguments are not just since yesterday, but Jack Ma brings his argument to the point. Ma does not talk around the bush and is not bored with numbers. His key message is clear in a few sentences: He says where he sees the problems and what solutions exist.
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Source: Copyright World Economic Forum (www.weforum.org) / Photo by Natalie Behring / Flickr Jack Ma (cc-by-sa-2.0)
