Today Tessy Britton shared a link to this report by David Bollier:

Power-Curve Society: The Future of Innovation, Opportunity and Social Equity in the Emerging Networked Economy (download here)

I wanted to save myself a reminder of some of the content, so I’ve pasted some quotes which I liked below.

“Education is what you do to people; learning is what you do for yourself.” — Joi Ito (p35)

“Schooling should not be about making someone a professional; it should be about making somebody a professional learner.” — Joi Ito (p36)

The most interesting and rewarding jobs of the future are likely to require entrepreneurial talents, practice-based skills and a healthy sense of anti-authoritarianism, said Ito. Unfortunately, traditional education tends to stay confined within disciplines, “which teach more and more about less and less,” while the more rigorous ways of learning come through social practice. “A lot of jobs are ‘pigeonhole jobs,’ ” … “We need ‘anti-disciplinary’ jobs for people who don’t fit into any pigeonholes. How do you raise those kids, hire them and match them with jobs?” (p37)

Some educational principles that could guide future educational reform are suggested on page 37:

Resilience over strength. Pull over push. Risk over safety. Systems over objects.
Compasses over maps.
Practice over theory.
Disobedience over compliance.
Emergence over authority.
Learning over education.