Wei Qing and Tiffany (4C)

Summary of the video:
The video is about the future of work. It says that the future of work is transparent, on demand, competitive and flat. In the past, productivity was very hard to measure, tons of money are wasted every year to pay for employee downtime. In the present, there are jobs that were not here 20 years ago, it is said that people that are jobless would have a job in the future that is not created now but by the future. Every year, the amount of diplomats, people with degrees increase, because everyone has the equal rights for education. It turns the market into a very competitive one. People are jobless because, there are too few jobs available, but too many people. To be employed, one needs to stand out from the crowd to show how outstanding he/she could be. One has to have unique skills that nobody has. The employers now wants originality instead of degrees. Degrees are side factor now because almost everyone has one, creativity varies from individual and shows one's individuality.
Answering the question:
I think that the European education best prepares students for the work of future. As said in the video, employers now are searching for individuality, not degrees. Why are degrees not as important as before? It is because there is an increasing amount of degree holders entering the society that are searching for jobs. In the past, employers wanted degree holders because degree holders were so rare and it shows how much knowledge the graduate has. But now, everyone has knowledge, it becomes the creativity one has. European education emphasizes on developing the individuality instead of wanting the students to memorize textbooks and model answers. Asian education, rather, emphasizes on building the knowledge students have, instead of their creativity. European education gives students more free space to develop, they have no specific format the students had to follow besides asking the students to do their best and hand in the assignment on time and give them the most, 30 minutes of homework only, which is Finland. There is no conformity in Finland, the students could choose what to wear to school, they could freely voice their opinions to suggest ideas. However, Asian education constricts the students' minds by asking them to memorize the model answers to get a perfect score. They would rarely mark on the creativity of the student, but instead test on how much they memorize. For example, in China, although it is not official, but they do require students to memorize what was taught in class to score for their tests and they would have tons of homework to do and they would have very less time to rest at all, or develop their own creativity side. Thus European education is better than Asian education in preparing them for the work of future.