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Kristel Taavet: We Teach Young People to Find the Right Answers, but Do We Teach Them to Ask Questions?
Translated from Estonian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.
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- Estonian young people have ideas and the motivation to put them into practice, Kristel Taavet writes.
- She argues that schools still focus heavily on prescribed frameworks and correct answers, which can increase fear of failure and discourage independent decision-making.
Estonian young people have ideas and the willingness to put them into practice, but the education system still largely trains them to operate within prescribed boundaries, entrepreneurship teacher Kristel Taavet writes.
In her view, students learn to look for the correct answers more often than they learn to formulate their own questions. That habit can make mistakes seem more threatening and reduce young people’s confidence in their own judgment.
Taavet links this pattern to broader choices young people must make for themselves. If they are not encouraged to decide, experiment and accept responsibility, their ideas may remain unrealized even when they have the motivation to act.
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Originally published by Postimees in Estonian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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