Archives For 21st century learning
Notable Quotes:
“The Victorians were great engineers. They engineered a [schooling] system that was so robust that it’s still with us today, continuously producing identical people for a machine that no longer exists.”
“It’s quite fashionable to say that the education system’s broken — it’s not broken, it’s wonderfully constructed. It’s just that we don’t need it anymore. It’s outdated.”
Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud
Mike Rowe argues:
“We are lending money we don’t have to kids who can’t pay it back to train them for jobs that no longer exist. That’s nuts.”
The other gem that Rowe offered in this interview was the realization that the worst advice he ever got was from his high school councillor who pointed to the poster on the left and asked Mike who he would rather be. In response Mike has developed and is selling the following poster which proceeds to to the mikeroweWORKS Foundation, which pays for trade school scholarships.
You can purchase a copy of the new poster from Mike’s site Profoundly Disconnected
Governor Huckabee Interview of Mike Rowe
Mike Rowe’s Profoundly Disconnected site
