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've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.
A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.
I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is great value to the quiet, contemplative process of reading a novel, that reading great books carefully offers pleasures and consolations that no iPad app ever can.
Above all, those to whom the care of young minds has been entrusted should see to it that they respect both the smallest and largest animals as beings which, like people, have been summoned to the joy of life.
I've read about 80 books a year for the past 50 years. I come from cultural breeding. I don't have a cellphone. When you spend all your time checking your cellphone messages, or updating your Facebook (of course I don't have a Facebook page) then you don't have any time for reading.
My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go.
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