Fad or Key?

Personally, I would love to believe that the 21st Century Skills are the "key to the future" but I would have to agree with the critics on this one. "States are are not getting: methods, assessments, and professional development that have been assessed and shown to be effective."(Flawed Assumptions..) This is true because the ideas coming from this beautiful array of nicely put together ideals sounds too good to be true but effectively, it could use some work. There are no proven methods. The skills alone seem too broad to be applied to every type of classroom. Of course every teacher wants to teach critical thinking, problem solving, and creativity but in the end is everything the teacher tries to teach really getting through to their students? We would like to believe that what we teach does, but the reality behind it is that students will learn and remember what they want. Our job is to instill important, useful information into the minds of the future leaders, presidents, workers, and society of tomorrow. Does every teacher do just that? I would have to say "no," not all do. In a perfect world these skills would be fool proof and every student would follow what the teacher lectures and apply it to the real world. Unfortunately, I cannot see how these skills in general are a key factor when they are going to be ever changing. It was said that many state have tried to adapt the 21st Century Skills but they have trouble because they end up having their standards changed and assessments overseen. Assessment in itself is a topic so broad yet so critical to a students development that I cannot express all the negativity I was taught about it.
Also, experience is equivalent to practice is an infuriating assumption. I feel most could see how this is flawed. Just because someone can read every book on teaching and every article does not mean they are a great teacher. I have had teachers that are far from perfect and I have had some that blew me away with their knowledge and assertiveness to teach. Being a teacher for twenty years can strengthen you but it can also weaken you and your goals as a teaching professional. The times are always changing and I believe that you need to stay up to date with what is going on in today's time in order to make what you teach relevant and interesting enough to your students. The skills such as technology are important but with something changing every minute, the system is going to be changing as well. These skills seem like such a perfect idea but in the end they will never be complete.
I think it is safe to say that teachers will never have the perfect, set of guidelines to follow in order to show and prepare their students the ideal way they wish. The technology is always changing, the students minds will always be different, and the material we are told to teach is always going to be different in the years to come. The 21st Century Skills aren't the only ones that I will disagree with. I think they are an amazing idea but in the end, they are just that; an idea. New ideas happen everyday such is life. The standards will always change, the material will always change, and the technology will always change. It is clear I think that the skills are a fad, but to an extent, every set of guidelines are fads because they will always be tampered with in order to make them better, stronger, and even thought of as perfect.