In an ideal world, how do you think education should be
organised?
What priorities do you think it should reflect? and who
should be responsible for ensuring that it is of a good quality?
In
an ideal world, all members of any given society should be familiar with the
metanarrative(s) that structure their world. We are going through the fourth
industrial revolution and the technological force that fuels its unfolding is
changing and challenging our ideas of who we are and where we are going. The
global village is a reality and we should have the tools to overcome the
adolescence of our species. William Gibson once said, “The future is
already here — it's just not very evenly distributed.” I feel a laudable
purpose of education would be to prepare people to be active members of a
global community whose main purpose is to improve the well being of all while
exploring the ever-expanding universe. It
is very interesting to notice how organizations such as the World Economic
Forum call for an emphasis
on mostly soft skills as the foundations of our operating system for the 21st
Century. I think they are pointing on
the right direction and their suggestions actually goes hand in hand with the Agenda
2030 from the United Nations. Governments should do a better job at
informing their societies about the changes we are going through and the
necessity to change our myopic views and come to a general agreement about
where we want to go and what we have to do to get there.
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