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RE: The Idea Economy is coming... are you ready?

in #economy7 years ago

The basic assumptions behind education will need be revised, that's for certain!
But at the same time education is a red herring in this story, it won't help the hundreds of millions of professional people adapt to these new realities : education simply does not have the tools to help people adapt. Education as it is conceived right now is to provide one-size-fits-all solutions. Its tools are rote memorisation, standardisation and indoctrination and its very structure was designed to prepare people to work in a factory ( the bell, disciplinary process, hierarchy )

The outcome of all that is, intended or not, obedient, conservative thinkers which have little self knowledge and who are very risk averse.
Changing merely the curriculum is choosing a more fancy color lipstick for the pig.

Should there we be a curriculum ? Should there be textbooks ? Should there be any teachers , if so what should their role be? Should we even have these expensive school buildings ? Could you decentralize schools? Use the money put into bricks , to develop minds by a community approach ?
Why do kids need to sit still ? Why do they need to be in a classroom paying attention to a teacher for an hour at a time ?

hmm getting lengthy , better turn this into a post ...