WEBVTT 00:00:02.847 --> 00:00:04.842 On the relevance of education... 00:00:04.842 --> 00:00:07.478 Ok, so, the first question: 00:00:07.478 --> 00:00:11.911 From my perspective, education is not relevant 00:00:11.911 --> 00:00:15.856 or perhaps shouldn’t be relevant now. 00:00:15.856 --> 00:00:21.655 Because I think education is only as relevant as we all believe it to be, of course. 00:00:21.655 --> 00:00:26.130 And I think recent technologies and recent statements 00:00:26.130 --> 00:00:29.400 –I’m talking recent over the last 30 to 40 years – 00:00:29.400 --> 00:00:33.471 there’s been a lot of questioning of the process 00:00:33.471 --> 00:00:36.107 and the institutions around education. 00:00:36.107 --> 00:00:39.471 And with the recent technology of the last 5 to 10 years, 00:00:39.471 --> 00:00:43.481 those questions have become more readily accessible, 00:00:43.481 --> 00:00:45.560 a lot more people are accessing that question, 00:00:45.560 --> 00:00:48.052 thinking about it and furthering the conversations on. 00:00:48.052 --> 00:00:54.125 So the belief that education is relevant is being undermined. 00:00:58.725 --> 00:01:02.266 Therefore, the answer to the first question is no, 00:01:02.266 --> 00:01:04.261 then there’s no answer to the last question: 00:01:04.261 --> 00:01:06.403 how do you make it more relevant. 00:01:06.403 --> 00:01:08.052 But you need an alternative. 00:01:08.052 --> 00:01:09.841 If you’re going to say no, education is not relevant, 00:01:09.841 --> 00:01:11.943 then you need an alternative. 00:01:11.943 --> 00:01:14.846 And, from my mind, this is simply a semantic difference. 00:01:14.846 --> 00:01:20.118 The meaning of the word education has with it institutionalized, 00:01:20.118 --> 00:01:24.636 credits and certificates and bureaucracy. 00:01:24.636 --> 00:01:27.536 But the rhetoric used in education is around learning. 00:01:27.536 --> 00:01:31.562 Now, education and learning to me are completely different things. 00:01:31.562 --> 00:01:34.298 Education is a bureaucratization of learning, 00:01:34.298 --> 00:01:37.201 and learning is pure and simple. 00:01:37.201 --> 00:01:40.204 It’s being conscious, is exposing yourself to the right thing, 00:01:40.204 --> 00:01:43.026 it’s seeking to question things. 00:01:43.026 --> 00:01:45.654 And so, that’s the question: 00:01:45.654 --> 00:01:49.280 Is learning relevant and if so, how do we make it more? 00:01:49.280 --> 00:01:52.950 Then I agree, learning is obviously very relevant, very important. 00:01:52.950 --> 00:01:57.507 The problem we have, had had, at least the last century, 00:01:57.507 --> 00:02:01.469 at least the last 50 years, is that learning is being impacted by marketing. 00:02:01.469 --> 00:02:05.805 And our capacities to ask the right questions, 00:02:05.805 --> 00:02:07.498 to find the right information, 00:02:07.498 --> 00:02:09.867 and to even have the motivation to find the right information, 00:02:09.867 --> 00:02:13.237 I suspect is being impacted by marketing, 00:02:13.237 --> 00:02:15.940 which tends to want us to think shallow, 00:02:15.940 --> 00:02:18.576 in a shallow way, to desire shallow things, 00:02:18.576 --> 00:02:23.647 and to keep us in a very immature state of mind, I suppose. 00:02:24.118 --> 00:02:26.651 And so, I think then how do we make learning more relevant? 00:02:26.651 --> 00:02:28.419 We need to counteract that. 00:02:28.419 --> 00:02:33.304 And so I think, educational practitioners who are more 00:02:33.304 --> 00:02:36.194 than just people who offer certificates and open the gate for people 00:02:36.194 --> 00:02:38.458 to get pay raises and new jobs, 00:02:38.458 --> 00:02:42.567 people who a genuinely interested about our collective consciousness 00:02:42.567 --> 00:02:46.304 and empowering people and stuff like that, 00:02:46.304 --> 00:02:53.044 need to counteract the marketing machine and help kids, 00:02:53.044 --> 00:03:00.551 I suppose, to get beyond the fashion magazines and things like that. 00:03:00.551 --> 00:03:03.154 I don’t really have a clear idea how we do that, 00:03:03.154 --> 00:03:06.200 but I think there are writers out there who have a clear idea.