We need a revolution

‘Children starting school will be retiring in 2070. Nobody has a clue what the world will look like in 5 years' time. And yet we're meant to be educating them for it.’

‘There were no public systems of education really before the 19th century. They all came into being to meet the needs of industrialism.’

‘We have built our education systems on the model of fast food. You know there are two models (…) One is fast food, where everything is standardized. The other are things like Zagat and Michelin restaurants, where everything is not standardized, they're customized to local circumstances. And we have sold ourselves into a fast food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies.’

One of the first messages you have to tell in Education is ‘you are unique’.

Think about it: the economy calls for massive standardization while real Education celebrates and encourages diversity.

It's about customizing to your circumstances and personalizing education to the people you're actually teaching. And doing that, I think, is the answer to the future because it's not about scaling a new solution; it's about creating a movement in education in which people develop their own solutions, but with external support based on a personalized curriculum.

‘Shift Happens’ on Slideshare.net

‘Shift Happens’ on Slideshare.net

‘Shift Happens’ on Slideshare.net

‘In the next 30 years according to UNESCO, more people worldwide will be graduating through education than since the beginning of history. Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything.’

‘Between the old and the new edition of the French Academy Dictionary there is a distinction of about 20,000 words. This is an unprecedented situation. Most of the new words are words of sciences and professions.’

‘The today scientific revolution is huge and deep: a science lecturer teaches today around 70% of topics he did not learn when he was himself at college.’

Reforming will not help. Our current model is broken and not adapted to face issues of our times. We need something radically new.

HOMEWORK

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