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An hour to watch these videos or a few dollars and a few days to read a book might seem like too much work for a young person. Fast forward 10, 20, 30 years and you see the same people attending "How to be Successful" seminars and browsing the self-help section and attempting to read a whole book for free instead of buying a few. These same people would tell you, "I wished someone had told me all these things when I was a teenager."

The only reason I can think of why any young person today with so much inf

Do you feel like this student?

I read your book. I don't want to be sitting in a classroom where I'm treated like a machine and trained for the Industrial Age. I want to quit school. I don't intend to stop learning, I want to read and visit all parts of the world but I don't want to sit in the classroom anymore.

Here’s a video I found which adds some dimension to some of the things I was saying here.
 

It’s no longer a valid question as to why English has to be the international lingua franca. That idea is passe….wayyy past its sell-by date. The question now is, “Is playing catch-up in English the answer in achieving egalitarian equality in all major fields in play?”
Truth be told, I did not succeed in bending the [...]

Heard the Madonna and Justin Timberlake song before? Nah, don't bother if you haven't.

After watching this video (you gotta go to around 3:

(1) If you haven't yet, watch Sir Ken Robinson's video, - Do Schools Kill Creativity to understand why school did it.



(2) Open your eyes to the world - we keep talking about creativity and innovation. If schools killed it, what happens to you when you leave?

(3) Now read this levelled-down version of Futurist Thomas Frey's piece on The Future of Education.

INTRODUCTION

Within two years a radical shift will begin to occur in the world of education.

While many people are making predictions about the direction that education systems are headed, they have found the best predictors to be hidden in the participative viral systems springing to life in the online world, such as iTunes and Amazon.

These bottom-up approaches (organic!) are quick to develop, participant-driven systems that are closely aligned to the demands of the marketplace.

Futurist Thomas Frey and the members and associated research teams of DaVinci Institute collaborated on this research study. In this paper they focussed on the key missing elements that will cause the disruptive next generation education systems to emerge.

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