Reflections on ELT and the Crisis in Education

http://www.deltapublishing.co.uk/development/elt-and-the-crisis-in-education

What do you think of education today?

I've found two very interesting points the author and the survey make, the first one:

"ELTeachers are very often not viewed as ‘proper teachers’ within the education establishment. I often feel this is very unfair particularly as English language teaching has in so many ways long been ahead of many other teaching disciplines, both in terms of its awareness of learner centred pedagogical approaches and its, at times, obsessive need to continuously reflect and reevaluate and invent itself."
I think this is completely true and applies for Argentina as well, Ts of English are regarded as belonging to a "different kind" or sth while in terms of methodology English is the discipline that is always a step beyond in Education.
And then, I think I might have found the answer to why education is in crisis (:P) the question "Can every person in a society have a job that is creative and fulfilling?" received only 35 per cent of positive answers and 65 per cent of negative answers. Personally, I believe that if we consider that not every job in society is creative and fulfilling we'll go on teaching the "creative-to-be" elite only; and asking Ss to be creative in the classroom will go on being an exception rather than a rule. Aprir has recently published a link in which Ken Robinson talks about the need for a change in education paradigms, well, I think this is what he was talking about, the fact that it's most necessary that we ask Ss to be creative in as many instances as possible.

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