"Education" is archaic and ineffective. Time for a new model. Just sayin'

This is Sir Ken Robinson’s view on what is going on with the current state of “Education” and subtly pokes at ways to consider new models. For one, the education model we have now is modeled on Enlightenment & Industrial Age mentalities, and not those of the current, so-called “Information Age.” For one, change in the current world happen a lot faster than they did in previous years. We’ve never had so much access to so many streams of information in so many media as quickly as we do today. And the “more-recently-borns” (*cough* younger people) understand how to function and make decisions within this new environment because they don’t know about all the previous societal expectations, and prefer instead to pick through all this new data and choose what’s useful and ignore the rest.

The old model would look at all the non-useful data and write essays on everything that’s wrong with the non-useful data (“This will not work because {insert some contrary proof},” “So and so has all the wrong ideas because {insert logical fallacy here}” etc). And that’s part of the old model’s MO. They focus on what they don’t want and try to use logical methods to convince their opposition and others to join their bandwagon.

The new model looks around, sees a bunch of stuff that’s not wanted (non-useful data), but instead of focusing on it and breaking it apart into all the reasons why it’s not useful, chooses instead to focus on what IS wanted, and all the reasons that this NEEDS TO HAPPEN.

[The example here is exemplified by the past two elections. In the election of George Bush JR, there was considerable focus on what IS NOT wanted: war(s), GB re-elected, fear, “security”, “enemies,” “punishment” etc. Four years later, there was incredible focus on what IS wanted, which ended up being incredibly popular among a lot of people, especially the younger people. Those concepts were equality, freedom to choose what pursuits make an individual happy, non-judgement / “no one is an enemy.”

In both cases, the focus made the result happen. ]