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>"We need to change the education system so you spend less time when you are young learning to be hyper-specialized and more lifelong learning." This may be de
by rdlecler1 10y ago
>"We need to change the education system so you spend less time when you are young learning to be hyper-specialized and more lifelong learning."
This may be desireable, but youth unemployment is high exactly because people don't have enough of the required skill & experience to compete for a job. I don't think it's plausible that we'll dial back on education in this type of winner-takes-much workforce environment.
- snowwrestler 10y agoWe won't dial back; what we need to do is change education qualitatively. We still have the education system we designed when, as a society, we were fact-poor. People needed to learn lots of facts to get educated. Now we are drowning in facts--some real, some fake. What citizens need most is the ability to collect, evaluate, reorganize, and apply facts. They need to learn how to create and nurture internal systems of understanding, which they use to evaluate and interact with information. Part of the skill that workers need now is the ability to quickly learn new skills. No one has the same job they had 10 years ago. Even people with the same title and employer are doing things differently now. Employees who cannot adapt to change are the ones who will be in trouble, long term. We have an educational system that prepares students for career paths. We need to be producing graduates who have a sense of how to change or create their own path.