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.
I have what passes for an education in this day and time, but I am not deceived by it.
Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate part of you will not be met there. That is why reading ourselves as a fiction as well as fact is so liberating. The wider we read the freer we become.
History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they had in the beginning.
The best learning happens in real life with real problems and real people and not in classrooms.
A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser.
I train my chefs completely different to anyone else. My young girls and guys, when they come to the kitchen, the first thing they get is a blindfold. They get blindfolded and they get sat down at the chef's table... Unless they can identify what they're tasting, they don't get to cook it.
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