Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures

Radical Curiosity is what allows us to experience the joy and the wonder of bringing absurd impossibilities to fruition.

It is not enough to raise awareness and launch an assault upon legacy narratives. To successfully dissolve them, we need to articulate what a healthier alternative may look like.

what is education for? The purpose of education has held different narratives throughout history. Is it preparing young people to join the contemporary conversation the world is engaged in? Or merely to join the workforce as skilled laborers?

It is as though a student can identify with either the story of capitalism or that of civic enlightenment, but never both.

We need to bravely embrace the inquiries that have the potential to reorient, rehabilitate, and regenerate the complex challenges that we are confronted with.

What if we re-embraced activism as the intentional acts carried out by each generation to guide us from legacy narratives to new challenger narratives?

Operationalizing solutions is now more important than authoring new wisdom. It is telling that the graduate-level business degree is called a master’s in business administration. The problem is that administering blueprint solutions from past challenges naively underestimates the complexity of today’s world. And it leaves us ill-equipped to address

Nor should the social contract be static. To remain relevant in changing times, such a contract requires amendments. It should exist in a constant state of redesign.

Where do the power structures and agency of learning reside? Who has power: the learner, or the educator and the institutions that deliver education services?