i will probably have a job that doesn't exist today

this is a fascinating video by digital ethnography @ kansas state. i couldn't help but think of this talk by sir ken robinson. how archaic is our educational models? do they actually prepare children & young people for the future that we don't know? what responsibility is it of the church to help? i might have some thoughts on the church, but i am thinking reimagining the educational system is going to be harder work than church..

title of the post comes from one of the more striking signs by the students

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[gmw]

striking video to say the least. thanks also for that link to TED and the Sir Ken Robinson lecture in particular. I've been thinking over that since.

Seems like the differences we need in education are akin to the conversation in the church about thinking in terms of "community" and "formation" rather than "christian education." Maybe.

I remember when my uncle said to me while I was in college and had not yet figured out what to be when I grew up (yeah, like I've got it nailed today!). He works at IBM and he said that basically they were just looking for people who had learned how to learn. If you have a good well-rounded education and have learned how to learn, he said, they're confident that they can teach you anything you'd need to know to work there. Interesting in the present world of hyperspecialization at early levels of education.