This post was lost in the Crocapocalypse – I’m reposting it with its original date.
So the question becomes, how do we prepare our kids for a future that’s becoming less and less knowable as change accelerates?
And I think the answer is the same as it always has been. The best – the only – way to prepare our kids for any future is by showing them love, and a vision of a flourishing life, and by equipping them with the best tools we have to achieve it, and with the wisdom to use those tools well.
Stuart Patience – DriverlessCrocodile
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The higher you build, the more important foundations become.
Education is the process by which we equip people – including ourselves – with the values, attributes and tools they need to navigate and shape the world.
I use ‘tools’ here in the broadest sense, to include ideas, ways of understanding, and specific skills. Tools make it easier to do particular things, and word is more or less interchangeable with ‘technology’ as explained so well by Kevin Kelly.
To put it another way, tools make us more powerful.
Education is empowering in a very literal sense, and most of the powers that we gain through it are easily weaponised.