Educating the future

The future is coming soon

5) The education system we currently have was built to train the industrial worker. As we move to an information driven society it is high time to question everything about the process by which we educate our society. That process and the systems that underlie it will look very different by the time our children's children are in school.A VC, Mar 2009

I think this is right, I haven't been so succinct, but he's absolutely right, education is wrong for what we need from it, because we've moved on whilst it hasn't. Let's see what we get, and take what part we can in the future. See the whole thing and follow some of the other links here