“As a child I found school quite boring and interestingly today this is really what has really driven a lot of my approach which is really out of the box because I believe especially how we’re presenting to boys is the wrong way,” said Fritz Pinnock, CMU President.
Professor Pinnock was a guest on CVM TV’s current affairs programme One on One with Joel Crosskill last weekend.
“One thing my father always told me is that an excuse is not a strategy and I still use that today because many times we are afraid to challenge new things because the path of least resistance seems like the path to go, but it’s not,” said Professor Pinnock.
“I had the privilege of being on a flight with the President of Yale University and I said to him I have an advantage over you – by not having all the resources you have to be resourceful. When you are put in a space whatever you have you can use it. There’s so much in you. It’s not what is in your hands it’s what is inside of you. The real creativity – the passion the drive is inside of you,” said Professor Pinnock.
Professor Pinnock joined the Caribbean Maritime Institute in 2006 and has been there through its transition to University status last year September. Under his leadership, the University has undergone rapped expansion in areas of logistics, engineering and maritime studies. Areas that are considered pivotal to Jamaica’s economic development –as there are growing opportunities for employment within these sectors.
However, Pinnock challenged young people to rethink their academic paths and embrace the changes in the education industry in order to capitalize on the opportunities that exist in the un-saturated areas. “Our youths must rethink their academic pursuits and must embrace whatever change is taking place in the education system,” he said. For Pinnock, the education sector is one of the least developed sectors within the last century. “If you should compare a Tesla motor vehicle built in the 1900’s to the 2018 model; you would notice a drastic change in its look and design,” Pinnock said. “However, a classroom today looks just the same it did 100 years ago”
For the full clip of this interview, click the link below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XecnOyuA3Vk
