It has never been more difficult to educate young people for the future. With no one knowing what will happen next week, never mind in five or ten or twelve years’ time, how are we to equip young people to be able to succeed in a world that we cannot yet even imagine.

Creativity versus Literacy and Numeracy

Another intrinsic flaw in the system is that we have decreased the value placed on creativity and increased the value placed on literacy and numeracy. As a result, we have aborted our children’s creative learning early on in childhood so that they could instead focus on more important things that will get more concrete results. We have lost sight of the fact that creativity is as important as literacy, and is a vital educational tool in order to equip talent workers for beyond 2012.

In our attempt to coerce our young ones into following career paths with what seemed like more prosperous horizons, we moved them away from the creative arts and creative thinking, unaware that it is these exact creative skills that are key to the talent workers ability to think outside of the box and to do things differently in order to better the situation in which they work. In effect, we have stripped our children of the real skills that they need in order to become valuable contributors of economic society by making them all the same and knowing only what we have taught them. In essence we have educated our children out of creativity.

All we know for certain about beyond 2012 is that the world will not need more of the same, but people who can imagine what could be in order to solve complex, global challenges.

Now that we have an idea of what is required, let us take up the challenge of creatively developing talent workers, on mass, to supply the demand in industry.

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