Our Linear education systems, are
designed to be “batch-learning modules”
that have a determinable output. They assume
that you study as a student and learn (input)
as much as you can , for as long as you can
afford the cost and time. Then depending on
how successful you were within competition;
this learning (Input) should provide you the
economic return and means for your whole “life”
(output). A kind of neat and logical throughput
formula, that aimed to separate the ‘learning
years from the earning years’.
This no longer seems sustainable with faster
obsolescence and reduced lifecycle of technology,
changing consumer needs, markets and hence THE
NEED FOR NEW SKILL SETS. Batch education
is insufficient because it is paradoxically
“too extensive based on the assumption that
knowledge and experience are separate needs."
The Non Linear Era requires us to accept
that the future requires a greater need for
APPLICATION OF KNOWLEDGE, and paradoxically
a lesser need to “just have knowledge”. Knowledge
is increasingly being converted to information
with a reducing economic value for basic knowledge.
(This does not imply or infer the reducing need
for knowledge. This is merely to forecast that
there will be a lower “economic return when
compared to the application of that knowledge”.)
The future will require a “broader vision
compared to the current focus on specialty learning”.
"EXCELLENCE" AS WE KNOW IT WILL
REQUIRE TO BE REDEFINED. NARROW FOCUS EDUCATION
WILL HAVE TO GIVE WAY TO “BROADER AWARENESS.”
The length of education as a BATCH-learning
will have to be replaced with INCREASED FREQUENCY
OF SHORTER DURATION LEARNING to insure continued
economic return (somewhat similar to what we
call "training").
A stable future is dependant on the ability
of our education systems to “prepare our
youth for uncertainty where they will accept
the need to RELEARN Knowledge when change requires
it!"
Its value will have to be “qualified by
its timely need and not its quantum."
Education will require Less Learning and More
Application.
MEDIOCRITY OF THE PAST COULD BE THE EXCELLENCE
OF THE FUTURE!
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Start to think of yourself as a valuable asset,
not similar to others BUT unique. There is a better
future where there is more opportunity for more
persons; and where success is NOT going to be
based on “what you know or what you knew; BUT
HOW YOU APPLY YOURSELF IN THE GIVEN SITUATION."