Yesterday, while reviewing a vacancy advert for a managerial position at a global organization, the first statement under the job requirements immediately caught my attention:
“In efforts to be more inclusive, equitable, and core value-aligned, we no longer require educational credentials.”
It’s a telling sign of where the world is heading. I leave it to the beholder—especially students, teachers, career specialists, parents, and job seekers — to reflect on the implications of this shift. I believe we’ll soon be seeing more and more job adverts of this nature.
And then there is this breaking news, if you will, of a state ruling that nursery schools must start their day at 8:00 a.m. and end at 12:00 p.m.
Poor kids.
In our time as kids, we played. I mean, played and had fun endlessly, so that by the end of the day, your intuition did not inform you that you had learned — though you had been learning. It was all an integral part of playing — like real kids.
But now, for many kids, it’s a different story: You wouldn’t be blamed for thinking they are in for a PhD course! 5:00 a.m., up and about in the house, ready for the bus at 6:00 a.m., and at the school gate by 7:00 a.m.! That was my waking time back then.
We must have very sound emergency reasons for tasking kids to such extremities — otherwise, let’s let kids be kids.
