Richard Sambrook [thanks Euan]:
John Chambers, CEO of Cisco, made a really good point at the Clinton Global Initiative:
He said the current education system of grades and exams puts people in competition with each other and is a top down command-and-control model. As the leader of one of the world’s biggest IT companies he believes future education should concentrate on networking and collaboration – which will support greater innovation and cross-discipline creativity. It will also, he said, attract talent. Call it Education 2.0 then…
I completely agree at University level, and perhaps 16+, when education becomes optional. But I’m not sure it’s an either or before then. I’m just a little suspicious of completely ditching the top down. And I do think broad brush statements about education and how we should do it need to be narrowed take into account the strengths and proclivities that we have as a result of our age.