Our current education System was designed in the late 18^th Century (the start of the Industrial Revolution) to create employees.  It worked well in the 19^th Century, it didn’t work in the later half of the 20^th Century and is totally inappropriate for the 21^st Century.  It still produces employees, the only issue is that employees do not last a lifetime any longer.

We need an education system to take us into the unknown future.  A great video on this is “Did You Know 2008”.

In my day at school we were never to:-

• Copy someone’s work
• Never  get other people to do your work

Well both of these have gone out the window, with the introduction of the Internet and the rapid accumulation of knowledge.  We can’t waste our time reinventing knowledge, we have to leverage off others work, rapidly, and take it the next step.  How can our current education System cope with this?  It just can’t.

Our kids are smarter than their teachers, purely because they are more capable of learning at a younger age and they are exposed to more information at their informative years, the teachers can’t possibly keep up.  If this is the case, you can the teachers come up with ways of teaching their students?

We have Years 1 – 12 at school, are these really relevant these days?  We got id of our technical colleges, when really all schools should be technical colleges, specialising in different fields of study.  It would be a precursor to University.

I personally try and keep up with my education by attending seminars a number of times a month, learning and leveraging off practicing experts in their field.

A Trainer/Coach called Jamie McIntyre wrote a book entitled “What I Didn’t Learn At School But Wish I Had”

Which puts this very well.

In all honesty I do not have the answers to this particular problem, and would welcome any input on the subject.  I know it is not working (I have an 11 year old son myself) but I seriously do not know the magic answer.

If you have the answers let me know.