Time to sieze education back…

Posted on | October 30, 2008 | No Comments

For too long I have been tossing a lot of cold water on the global education establishment.

IB programs do IB but are not IB.

Outcome based learning works to outcomes but doesn’t live the outcomes.

For four years I have been lucky to be able to go to some very expensive conferences that CEO’s and the like attend, as a perk I suspect.

The beuty of these conferences is they are flush with A-level speakers who present really cool stuff that is often tied to books, research, flushed out ideas—generally the stuff that corporations and states use to create their policy.

So why are CEO’s and people who have cash to burn seemingly the only people who get to these conferences? And by the way the people at these conferences are often those that can do the least with the information.

I have this grand idea!

Why not create a university program that is based on going to conferences around the world?

Why not go to the conferences and take in the ideas, talk, experiment, question, read, write, plan and do?

What about having a team of people like me that contextualize the ideas and help focus them around milestones, projects,ventures maybe even some further academic research?

And what to we call this?

World Education! Real Education! Next education! ONEeducation!

Why is nobody doing this?

I want to start!

What we need are a few more global, broadminded people to help be curators.

What we need is backing.

What we need are a handful of people who want to change the way we think and do education!

Here are three conferences to think about!

GEL, IDEAS, LEADERS

Imagine what could happen?

Imagine the output?

Imagine the role the graduate might play in leading the next phase of global development.

Why has this not been done? Too easy to make amazing change I suspect!

Who wants to join me?

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