Karl Mehta was on my show ‘confessions of a futurist with Sanjiv Goyal’. We talked about the future of education and exponential learning.
Some interesting facts; the United States education market is close to $2 trillion, i.e., 10% of our GDP. We have female students outnumber males in higher studies.
Points we have addressed and/or raised;
1) Are we spending taxpayers and our money wisely?
2) Are we preparing our future generation with almost stone-age technology?
3) What do we really need for the future; skills or education?
4) Can we speed up the pace of the learning, or will it remain linear. 10,000 hours as per Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers: The Story of Success.
5) Education is the biggest equalizer, but is the income gap widening or …?
6) Technology is eliminating low-income jobs, the skills gaps are rising; what is the answer?
7) Do we need global education reform and a framework to solve it?
After our talk, I have more questions than ever; it is like ‘more I learn more, I realize how little I know.’
Is a college degree still relevant and equipping our next generation to lead into 2050 and beyond? I will invite Pradeep Khosla, UCSD Chancellor, to address this question. He leads a campus with more than 40,000 students, seven undergraduate colleges, six academic divisions, and six graduate and professional schools with various IIT Directors.
Stay tuned!
