Whether or not they grow up to be architects, the fundamental skills that drive design and architecture can offer immense benefits to our children. The way children grow up to think, behave, solve problems, and create can be immeasurably enhanced by teaching them to think like architects from an early age.
“The traditional classroom, with a teacher at the front and students arranged in rows, has had its day,” concludes the education report recently published by the Economist Intelligence Unit and sponsored by Google.
The document was based on a series of surveys and interviews with students, teachers, and business leaders from 25 countries, including Brazil. According to the report, rather than just delivering information, the school of the future must give students the opportunity to debate ideas, conduct their own experiments, and acquire so-called 21st-century skills, such as problem-solving, teamwork, and communication.
