The Future of Education

Paula Lustemberg
Aug 28, 2017 · 3 min read

If we face reality, we have to accept the fact that the main relationship children have today is with their phones. We can feel bad about it and blame Apple, or we see reality as it is and steer our future where we want to see it going. We need to see for what we have and don’t confuse it with what we wish. Only by looking at what is we can do something to fix it. Remember, society is man-made. We create ourselves.

Current Educational System

With the advance of technology, access to information goes beyond what was imaginable 50 years ago. Our society has changed. When we leave school, we are already outdated. A system that is built in ideas and concepts cannot stand the speed of change that we are facing now. Education has to transform itself into something that is relevant to our times. Before we needed schooling for information, now, we need schools for human development. We created professions to fix problems. We need to provide an education that prevents them. Humanity is evolving and with this new consciousness, it is our job to transform the world we have inherited with the same passion of those who have created it before us.

It’s not an act of rebellion to transform the system. It’s taking ownership and make the best with what our ancestors have bequeathed us.

Apprenticeship — The School the Future

When our primary education becomes a tool for navigating life, we will finally start to take care of our species. We need skilled guides instead of traditional teachers. We need individuals that are capable of observing our self-expression without judgment. These schools would provide the materials needed to develop our natural skills in a diverse environment. As children uniqueness is developed, diversity will be the new normal. Going to school would become a real apprenticeship for developing inter-relational human skills as well as individual talents.

As these schools are designed to teach everything, they become a self-sustaining network that carry these children to adulthood fully equipped for living life in all its dimensions. Basically, we would be training sages.

Besides developing a career, these type of education would also develop:

  • collaborative skills
  • service
  • capacity of responding to real life needs
  • uniqueness
  • self-acceptance
  • self-worth

The last two are a direct consequence of embracing uniqueness. In today’s society we are still looking for outside examples in order to receive guidance on where we want to go. Our own uniqueness becomes synonymous of shame as we are told again and again that for being accepted we need to imitate the “uniqueness” of someone or some group that is accepted as desirable by society.

Moving from this model of society to another one that cultivates self-knowledge is revolutionary. Not following accepted role models it’s like losing sight of our destiny. We need to review why we distrust so much our inner wealth and chose following somebody else path. As this school of the future is not yet available, we need to create it in ourselves. In any case, society is a reflection of each one of us. We don’t know where we will end up by doing this. What we know is that, when a human being is properly nurtured, blossoms.

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Paula Lustemberg

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Writer. Singer. Songwriter. http://www.paulalustemberg.com

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