Why the ‘human capital theory’ era of education is over
Leveraged Learning: How the Disruption of Education Helps Lifelong Learners, and Experts with Something to Teach
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When it comes to the future of work, the big issue is not getting higher education to adopt technology or bypass existing institutions. Rather, the future dilemma lies in figuring out who will pay for the frequency of education and training that is required for us humans to keep up in the next economy.
Van Ton Van-Quinlivan • The Future of Work Has Much Bigger Problems Than Disrupting Higher Education
Civilization needs citizens capable of openness and inquiry; these should therefore be the hallmarks of higher ed. The need for nimble thinking, creativity in both the posing of questions and the search for their solutions, an ability to return to first principles rather than rely on mnemonics and received wisdom—these are ever more important as we
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If there’s one place, then, where we can intervene in a way that will pay dividends for society down the road, it’s in the classroom. Yet that’s barely happening. All the big debates in education are about format. About delivery. About didactics. Education is consistently presented as a means of adaptation – as a lubricant to help you glide more ef
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Do the schools that we have designed best suit the world we are entering into? Has the old industrial form of education that our current system is based upon become obsolete? How can schools be designed to prepare young people for a changing world with increased needs for circular and systems thinking along with skills for a future that will be ver... See more
Leyla Acaroglu • System Failures: The Education System and the Proliferation of Reductive Thinking
if education doesn’t help young people find their place in the world, then really what is it for if they don’t know themselves and the world and how those things fit together better?’