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What Silicon Valley principles apply in US schools

I hope you won’t argue with me that Silicon Valley is one of the world's main centers of innovation. The development of computers and everything connected with them we owe to this small piece of land in California. Why are only the names of Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Google - they are not just hearing, this is already a significant part of our lives.

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But Silicon Valley is not a closed secret military base. The principles of its success are enthusiastically adopted by modern American schools in order to prepare a worthy change to innovators. What principles of Silicon Valley are used in American schools?

Question Authorities

Object to the teacher at my school? I can't imagine such a situation! Sasha, who do you think you are? Sit down - deuce, you will come with your parents. I can easily imagine such a situation in my school. In American schools, children are instructed from the elementary grades: if you disagree with the teacher on something, don’t be afraid to talk about it. The main thing is not to be unfounded: if you don’t agree, that’s all! And give arguments.

Without questioning the authorities, no innovation is born, and if this is not done, then nothing in this world will change. Therefore, American children are taught to abide by the rules and acquaint themselves with the current view of the fundamentals of science, but are always open to criticism or constructive suggestions.

Let's experiment

In the playgrounds in my homeland, I often heard parents kill children’s initiatives with criticism from the height of their experience: Vanya, what are you doing? It won't work that way! The result of this is known: after several such attempts and pulling out mom, Vanya will stop experimenting, and will immediately ask mom: how is it right? With us, this is considered obedience. In Silicon Valley, this is considered limited thinking. If you do not give to experiment - never get anything new.

Trust and they will trust you

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In the schools of the States is very well developed once the institution of duty on our part. Since childhood, children are trusted with important things: distribute mail, for example, or answer the phone in the classroom, or help in the cafeteria. Adults trust children, and children trust each other. Without trust, no innovative business begins.

If at one time IBM had not trusted an unknown boy, Bill Gates, there would be no world-famous Microsoft. As Americans say: trust can damage an individual, and the lack of trust will disproportionately damage the entire society.

You can and should make a mistake

I remember that we were scoring points at school if we incorrectly designed math problems: for example, by reducing fractions, we crossed out the numbers not with a pencil, but with a pen! What to say, if you made a mistake - I was definitely shot with a point. Whether I tried or not was not important. Did the right thing - get a positive rating, wrong - negative.

In the states, it is not effort that encourages results. There is no progress without errors. Errors do not need to be afraid of and they do not need to reproach. If you tried better than you did before: well done. It did not work - not scary. This, of course, does not apply to exams. The exam is a slice of knowledge, and here everything is unequivocal. However, in the learning process itself, efforts are encouraged, not bare results. In this way, interest in learning is preserved and a culture of effort is cultivated in order to achieve a result.

Pay to another or pay in advance

There was such a movie called Pay Others. In it, the hero, a little boy, preached the philosophy that you should not pay good for the good you did, but you just need to do good to other people: pay life ahead for the future good that comes to you. In Silicon Valley, you can talk to anyone, even with Mark Zuckerberg, if you can catch him, and he will gladly give you advice and tell you what he knows.

When my daughter first came to the American class and could not connect two words in English, on the very first day she was amicably surrounded by all the children of the class. They did not help her because she was their “best friend” or they hoped to have some benefit. They helped just like that. Help your neighbor now and do not expect immediate benefits from him. That sounds great, doesn't it?

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