'Future Generations Need Higher Order Thinking Skill'
PUTRAJAYA- Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak today called for the country's education system to focus on developing intellectual capital, saying the effort was necessary to equip the future generations with the higher order of thinking skills.
He said this was important because the country aspired to prepare the younger generation to enjoy not only the benefits of today but also the more glorious future.
In the future, the younger generation would have to occupy jobs which might not exist today, and the challenge of the country was to find ways to prepare them for that scenario, he said.
"How do we prepare them for jobs that do not exist? The answer is that we cannot because we do not know the types of job that do not exist yet. We can only prepare them in terms of their capacity to think ... (to take them to) the higher order of thinking skills," he said at the Premier Assembly of Outstanding Teachers 2012 at the Putrajaya International Convention Centre, here.
"This is to make them not only sharp and in-depth in their thinking but also to be creative and innovative, so that they have the flexibility to adapt to any situation that may arise," he said. -- Bernama
SOURCE: New Straits Times
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