The knowledge and experience of ‘the old’ is still considered the best instruction for ‘the young’. And so the education system continues to focus primarily on facts-based knowledge – how to improve grades and scores.
The reality today is that fact-based knowledge doubles every 18 months (according to the MIT), and by 2010 it will double about every four weeks. As the amount of information continues to increase, the time needed to learn all that seems necessary for various jobs, careers and professions can quite literally no longer be found.
The new challenge now is to create meaning and value from information –it’s about thinking, understanding, insight and perception. For which we require a totally new starting point for the way we think of and approach ‘education’.
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