Psychology for future education: Book Review

Book review: "Letters to a New Minister of Education" by Fernando M. Reimers

10.31219/osf.io/n2wc3 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Anh-Duc Hoang

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development Goals ◽

Educational Leaders ◽

Education Reforms ◽

Government Officials ◽

Public System ◽

The Past ◽

Common Goals ◽

Development Goals ◽

Future Education

Education is the most extensive public system in almost countries, influencing citizens' present and future (Reimers, 2020). Moreover, many adults are also being obsessed with unforgettable memories during childhood. Regarding special links from the past to the future, education is always among the most concerned sectors over the globe. Indeed, it is quite challenging to govern such a vast and complicated system towards sustainable development goals (Hoang et al., 2020). Professional development pieces of training or opportunities for leaders of education systems often come only when they already hold their positions for a period, being surrounded by tangled and ambiguous issues. Perhaps, "Letters to a New Minister of Education" (Reimers, 2019) is not a textbook, a guideline or a formula of how to become a successful minister of education. However, this book is a precious seed to cultivate every stakeholder's educational spirits, including government officials, education managers, teachers, parents, or our future educators. The separated and accumulated reflections of former senior educational leaders in this book bloomed from their happiest and saddest experience. Those sharing are the most concrete messages for each and every stakeholder to be able to understand other people's perspectives. As a result, people who care about education reforms might have more profound empathy with each other, which lead to the genuine acknowledgement of collaborations toward common goals.

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