Education used to be a slice of life, something you did as a child through college, and then spent the rest of your life working, and then death. Everything is about to change. I believe education will become something that fits seamlessly into life, and we will take big clunky things like degrees and college and fit them into a weekend.
Interpretation
Education is evolving beyond traditional timelines and methods.
Sebastian Thrun highlights a transformative shift in the concept of education, suggesting that it will no longer be confined to the conventional path of childhood through college followed by work and then death. Instead, he envisions a future where education is integrated more fluidly into everyday life, allowing for learning experiences to occur in shorter, more flexible formats like weekend courses, challenging the traditional view of degrees and college education.
In practice
During a seminar on modern education, I quoted Sebastian Thrun to emphasize the need for adaptable learning.
In the field of higher ed, many have asked whether (or when) digital education will replace on-campus education. I wonder the opposite. Cinema never replaced theatre. TV didn't replace radio. I wonder how different digital education will be from classrooms, and where it will lead us.
I ultimately got into robotics because for me, it was the best way to study intelligence.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Working with children is the easiest part of educating for democracy, because children are still undefeated and have no stake in being prejudiced.
A good part of 'The Information' is about the transition from an oral to a literary culture. Books effected such a great transformation in the way we think about the world, our history, our logic, mathematics, you name it. I think we would be greatly diminished as a people and as a culture if the book became obsolete.
It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.
We make the Sabbath a delight when we teach the gospel to our children.
I just think that giving a child a chance and sharing what you have with a child is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, as well as a child.
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