The Octopus Movement White Paper on Education: Solving the U...

The Octopus Movement White Paper on Education: Solving the Unsolvable

The Octopus Movement's white paper explores the challenges of the current education system and proposes a nonlinear approach to education that fosters lifelong learning and personal development.

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In large part this is because education, like most social systems, is slow to adapt, iterate, and evolve to be relevant for changing times. The glacial pace of change of the education system cannot match the agility of the real world, where a single moment can rewrite and reorganize its foundations.
from Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures by Seth Goldenberg
Keely Adler added
Thriving in a complex world requires creativity and original thinking, but our education system is designed for mass production — not unlocking imagination and individuality. We won’t be able to solve 2050’s challenges with an educational supply chain built for the 1950s.
from Primer | Blog - A bit about Primer by Ryan Delk
sari added
The current search for new educational funnels must be reversed into the search for their institutional inverse: educational webs which heighten the opportunity for each one to transform each moment of his living into one of learning, sharing, and caring.
from Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich
sari added
Opportunities for skill-learning can be vastly multiplied if we open the “market”. This depends on matching the right teacher with the right student when he is highly motivated in an intelligent program, without the constraint of curriculum.
from Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich
sari added
To make the most of human potential, we must tutor the best and brightest away from the systems and goals that govern broader society. Is that feasible?
from Gays, Jews, and Geniuses by Dror Poleg
Lillian Sheng added
Higher Ed has Serious Fun - Formal education institutions are too often geared around the same old methods for learning - using teaching methodologies that haven’t changed much since the Industrial Revolution (and even further back...). Relying on lectures and note-taking leaves students painfully bored, most doing just enough to get by. Howe... See more
from Liquid Learning - The Edutainment 3.0 Report by Wavetable
Keely Adler added
I think the value of education, obviously, is immensely important. But there are many ways to educate yourself, as you rightly pointed out, and I do think education needs a fundamental reform in order to keep up with where the world's going, both the wealth of knowledge that's now available online and the ability for us to realize that as individua... See more
from A Chat With The King of Music: An Interview With Daniel Ek by Daniel Ek
sari added
through curiosity can reveal people to themselves. But formal education largely remains a vocational enterprise in which, Sir Ken argues, we are being steered away from the things we love “on the grounds that you would never get a job doing that.” Love has been rationalized out of the system of education, but it is central to the deeply personal an
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from Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures by Seth Goldenberg
Keely Adler and added

from Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures by Seth Goldenberg

from Primer | Blog - A bit about Primer by Ryan Delk

from Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich

from Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich

from Gays, Jews, and Geniuses by Dror Poleg

from Liquid Learning - The Edutainment 3.0 Report by Wavetable

from A Chat With The King of Music: An Interview With Daniel Ek by Daniel Ek

from Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures by Seth Goldenberg