I’m always fascinated to find when you are aware something, how often you find it in places you least expect it. It seems like I can’t listen to any subject without hearing about something that relates to school and how we (mis)educate our children.
Who would have thought that while listening to stock investing podcasts I would find information that relates to education and anxiety? Such as this interview on a Motley Fool with the author of The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future, Kevin Kelly.
On the Rule Breaker Investing Podcast episode Extra: Kevin Kelly Q&A, at around 7:20, Kelly is asked what the college education of the future should look like. He said was not that it was important that you know any subject matter, but that you know how you personally learn. Because what’s in the future what’s going to be important is the ability to learn, not what you learned or memorized in the past.
At around 13:00 he covers another point that I think relates to education. He mentions Maslow’s hierarchy, that as we fulfill our basic needs we move up the ladder until what we want to achieve is self-fulfillment. Does our high school AP driven curriculum give kids time to figure out their route to self-fulfillment? And if it doesn’t how does that contribute to anxiety?
You can listen to this very interesting interview for yourself on Rule Breaker Investing Podcast episode Extra: Kevin Kelly Q&A or here with the Stitcher player below.
The main interview, Our Inevitable Future: Interview with Kevin Kelly, is also interesting. Around 21:00, Kelly explains how jobs of the future are going to involve being the creative mind for an AI counterpart that handles the more routine parts of jobs, like calculators doing the math.