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On the relevance of education...

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How is education relevant?

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I mean, I see education…

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I mean, sort of the stock answer it’s the organized transmission of culture, right?

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That’s kind of important…

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You want to, you want to teach the younger since they came up,

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you want to impart the culture and shared experience,

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so obviously education is important because

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that’s the institutionalization of that shared experience.

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How do we make it relevant?

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One of the problems with education right now is,

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although that’s how we’re imparting culture it is completely impersonal.

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It is an institution as a factory-based thing: “We will give you education”.

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And I think one of the themes I’m hearing especially at the Open Education Conference where we are now,

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is the role of the individual perspective, the multiple perspectives and

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taking ownership so it is internally motivated.

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And once we get that internal and intrinsic motivation,

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the self-motivation, the self-directedness as well as the institutional side of things,

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hopefully education gets more relevant to the individual learners

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as well as all of us as a shared culture.