Goal of Education

The conference clarified and re-defined the goals of education.

The goal of education is no longer to create the LEARNED person, but to CREATE THE LIFE-LONG LEARNER.

What does this mean?

Today, no one knows where the jobs will be thirty or fifty years from now, nor what qualifications will be needed for it.

A college will not be able to tell its students: We shall provide you a degree, and with that you will be able to get life-long employment.

No, that world is largely gone.

We have moved from the Industrial Age to the Information Technology Age. Many of us still live mentally in the Industrial Age.