John Holt Quote
Manisha sent me this John Holt quote today:
Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.She comments, "This seems obvious now because we've seen technology change. It was one of the factoids in that video [in the previous post]. But it's amazing that he could see it then - probably 30 years ago."
posted by MP at 10:11 AM
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Anyone who has gone to college in technology knows this very well (when I was in college, majoring in biology, we were doing PCR--gene replication--by hand, and this was cutting edge; even just a few years later machines were doing this instead). Yet, ironically, I'd bet that most of us old folks who did get these "advanced" degrees got there by "doing really well in school" and still think that's what our kids should do.
5:29 PM
Hi Sue,
I agree. I just had a thought: if you wanted to write an application for, say, Facebook, there is unlikely to be any university out there offering courses in it! It is just too new. So what do you do? Well, you do what humans have always done: You just start doing it, learn from your mistakes and keep going.
8:56 PM
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