Jeong Geun-sik: "Excessive Competitive Education Has Limits... This Year Will Be the Inaugural Year of 'Cooperative Education'"

Jeong Geun-sik, Superintendent of Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education, stated on the 22nd, "This year, Seoul education will mark the first year of realizing 'collaborative education' characterized by creativity and empathy that opens the future."

Jeong Geun-sik, Superintendent of Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education, is delivering a greeting at the 'Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education New Year's Meeting' held on the 22nd at the Baekbeom Kim Koo Memorial Hall in Yongsan-gu, Seoul. Photo by Kang Jin-hyeong

On the same day, at the '2025 Seoul Education New Year's Meeting' held at the Baekbeom Kim Koo Memorial Hall Convention Hall in Yongsan-gu, Seoul, Superintendent Jeong said, "It is time to face the limitations of exclusive and excessive competitive education and find a new balance between competition and cooperation."

He added, "The power to overcome future uncertainties can only be cultivated through creative and empathetic collaborative education that allows for finding various answers, not through problem-solving education with predetermined answers," and emphasized, "Competitive education aimed at quickly finding predetermined answers cannot foster creativity and empathy."

He also promised to implement systems to guarantee basic academic skills and resolve educational polarization, establish systems to enhance students' thinking and creativity such as the Math-Science Convergence Education Center, introduce future-oriented history education, and create cooperative governance with Seoul citizens.

The New Year's meeting was attended by over 500 figures from society and education, including Lee Ju-ho, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education, Seoul city council members, autonomous district mayors, parents, and teachers.

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