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.
Become a teacher. Your country needs you.
The main force pushing toward reduction in inequality has always been the diffusion of knowledge and the diffusion of education.
Some people there are who, being grown; forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort that the human undertakes, and he must do it as a child.
If you just do something, then you're a five-year wonder and, goodbye, you're gone. But if people feel it's worthwhile, not only do they copy but they want to learn how to do it To me, that's what it's all about. If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?' It was the teaching of others so that they could take my work and take it further.
All I have learned, I learned from books.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
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