/1. People stop learning after school because they never learned to learn at school. How much one knows is no longer anyone’s competitive edge. A degree serves as proof of one's ability to learn, not how much they learned. For knowledge is constantly emerging and changing. And ChatGPT always knows more than you. *** /2. In Economics class today, the teacher gave us a worksheet. There was this long article about something called Macro Economics, a list of key terms and a funny-looking diagram of empty boxes We were supposed to read the article, figure out the key terms and their definitions and put them into the mind map. After most people finished, the teacher gave us the answer, and told us to remember the definitions. And then he made us watch a Youtube video, and the class was over. *** /3. Instead of finding the definitions, I think it's more important to be able to locate the key terms. In the world of information, how do we know which ones are important concepts, if there's not a readily-made list for us? Instead of filling out the mind map, I think it's more important to be able to draw the mindmap. In a world of information and terminologies, how do we know how to organize them so that we actually understand how they relate to each other? Instead of looking for the definitions, I think it's more important to understand why the terms are invented These funny characters like GDP and GNP, who invented them and to what ends? In a world of complex systems, how do we design metrics that set boundaries to help us measure things and improve them? Instead of giving us the article and the Youtube video, I think it's more important for us to find the article and Youtuve video ourself. Where there are so many textbooks and Youtuve videos out there, how do we know which one to read and watch? how do we judge if a video is worth watching or not? how can we tell if a textbook is saying bullshit? *** /4. Don't throw at me random information. Help me understand how they connect with each other, Tell me how can I find more relevant information, and how can I make sense of them all. *** > What big ideas are important to little kids? Well, the biggest idea I think they need is that what they are learning isn’t idiosyncratic—that there is some system to it all and it’s not just raining down on them as they helplessly absorb. That’s the task, to understand, to make coherent. (...) Meaning, not disconnected facts, is what sane human beings seek, and education is a set of codes for processing raw data into meaning. > -- John Taylor Gatto > Confusion is thrust upon kids by too many strange adults, each working alone with only the thinnest relationship with each other, pretending, for the most part, to an expertise they do not possess. > -- John Taylor Gatto > "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." > -- Alvin Toffler