My recent blog on education- Education is too important to stay the way it is got featured by LinkedIn Pulse followed by 6 million people worldwide. More than 2000 people engaged in a conversation about it. There are some amazing observations resonating the ideas in the article. There is growing frustration about the way education hasn’t changed much despite the disruptive things happening across areas. In an accelerated world, we follow traditional methods to educate our people. Going to school and college looks like a military regimen. In a hyper-connected world, why don’t children study important stuff home and go out to play with their peers.
Day after day, when my son comes back home exhausted from school, I ask him – “do you like to go to school?” – he would say reluctantly, “yeah it is ok”. A 10 yo is not excited. Are we diminishing the spirit of children by enforcing an age old routine? We don’t need more in-box or out of the box discussions – we need no box discussions – considering the world which changed dramatically in last 5 years!
7 snap quotes from the blog
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We have changed the way we transport ourselves, book tickets, pay our friend, book hotels or even listen to a conference we missed to attend — live on Facebook! But we haven’t changed the way we send our children to schools and colleges.
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We are teaching things for jobs which do not exist in future.
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I wouldn’t be surprised if intelligent parents start realising this and start un-schooling / homeshooling children and letting them go free on learning — at the speed they can gather things.
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What current education offers is a ‘guarantee of consistently diminishing the spirit of learning in them with a punishing routine which they always try to escape.’
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Graduation from a decent college seems like an insurance against career failure.
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An entirely new model of open-access, free university education is now within reach. But there are more sceptics for online learning than believers.
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People go to colleges for credentials, not for learning.