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.
NASA's been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve, and it's sad that we are turning the program in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation it provides to young people.
Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
Today, in every wave of every ocean, I see our children playing and dancing. Today, in every plant, tree, and mountain, I see our children growing in freedom.
You are at some point exposed to a wonderful story, and you really want to know what happens next, so you learn to read in order to find out.
Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play.
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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