# Why schools should teach for the real world

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDxFargo
- Speaker: Ted Dintersmith
- Year: 2015
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Teaching and learning
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/ted_dintersmith_why_schools_should_teach_for_the_real_world)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

As automation eliminates structured jobs and careers, schools should focus on training students to be bold, creative and entrepreneurial. Instead, argues education advocate Ted Dintersmith, the core purpose of education has been lost in a wave of testing, data and increasingly irrelevant metrics. In this talk, he underscores the need to educate for innovative and creative strengths, and trust our schools and teachers to prepare our kids for life, instead of standardized tests.

## Lectures

1. [Why schools should teach for the real world](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/ted_dintersmith_why_schools_should_teach_for_the_real_world/93347124c6e3), 12 min (TED's player)