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The Death of Intellectual Curiosity
The answer must lie in education somewhere. And if we look into research on different education strategies and their effectiveness, we do indeed see all sorts of debates about best practices, learning styles, class size, monetary policy, and equality. But mostly we see, actually, that none of it matters much.
Erik Hoel • Why We Stopped Making Einsteins
We need to re-think our traditional view of what it means to gain an education. Education is no longer just something you acquire in early life. The pace of change causes old skills to become obsolete more quickly than ever before. We now need to think of education as a dynamic, life-long process of continually cultivating Intellectual Capital. •Ir
... See moreGerry Valentine • The Thriving Mindset: Tools for Empowerment in a Disruptive World
education has largely stopped serving its primary purpose, preparing young people to thrive and giving them the skills and the hunger to continue a lifelong journey of learning.
Anshar Seraphim • The Octopus Movement White Paper on Education: Solving the Unsolvable
Thus, this all begs the question, do modern schools actually build knowledge and capacity for all, or do they just reinforce old ideas of how industrial needs are met with a workforce? If schools are, at their fundamental level, designed to create the workers of the future, why are we still teaching siloed skills of the industrial age, when we have... See more
Leyla Acaroglu • System Failures: The Education System and the Proliferation of Reductive Thinking
intellectual curiosity – the tendency to ‘seek out, engage in, enjoy and pursue opportunities for effortful cognitive activity’ – would count towards success, because students who possessed it would be hungry to learn information and explore new ideas. The data proved her right: