The world around those schools has, of course, changed beyond measure. The disconnect between the outdated structure of standard schooling and the economic and cultural realities of the innovation era is growing harder to ignore.
At a time when top jobs didn’t even exist a decade ago, and many jobs of the next decade haven’t yet been invented, most young people today continue to learn in conventional classrooms that train them to be passive bystanders, rather than active, agile pathmakers in a complex, constantly changing culture.
This conditioning starts early. The exuberance and inquisitiveness
that young children naturally display is quickly constrained within a
system of coercive schooling that favors obedience and compliance over
originality and curiosity. With the growth of universal preschool
programs, more children today are beginning this standard schooling path
when they are just barely out of diapers. They learn to color in the
lines, to wait to speak, and to ask permission to use the bathroom. They
learn that their interests and ideas are irrelevant, that their energy
and enthusiasm are liabilities. They learn to need to be taught....<<<Read More>>>...
