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For these reasons, it is our responsibility as educators to promote teaching and learning in
which the learners are invited to explore and investigate at their own pace and with their own
methods.
Accordingly, it is our duty to introduce these learners to new methods, tools and materials
that make their exploration more fun, proactive, and transcendent.
Flexpertise:
In the education system that prevailed in previous centuries, each individual had to
become an "expert" in something. Before the dawn of the new millennium, it was enough to
know how to do one thing well and to work doing that thing for a lifetime. Today, it is necessary
for the individual to have the ability to adapt to new situations and to integrate various
experiences and wisdoms to excel in the world. With this in mind, the 21st century individual
should not seek to be an expert, but a flexpert instead.
Flexpertise is the ability that an individual has to use in one thing the wisdom he has
acquired for another to optimize the results. For example, a woman who uses the wisdom she
acquired in a psychology course to improve the marketing of a product she is selling, is being a
Flexpert.
Similarly, a mechanic who makes the connection between what he learned in physics
class and the mechanics of an engine to develop a more efficient mechanism is also being a
Flexpert.
Simply, the flexpertise is the ability of an individual to connect ideas coming from previous
sources and apply them to new problems to get more effective and original results.
In Education First Inc., we consider flexpertise to be essential for the development of
children growing up today. As a result, we consider it important to implement, in our schools, a
culture of questioning and of forming connections between the different subjects and topics that
the children learn. Activities and games can create in the child the habit to look for solutions not