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If you die, who gets your email? Have you
specified it in a will?
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Before entering the school system, the young
child asks 125 probing questions a day. After the
university experience, the young adult asks a
mere six!
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The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for
existing.Albert Einstein
5
One of Peter Ustinovs grade-school teachers
wrote on his report card Peter shows great
originality, which must be curbed at all costs.
6
A terrorist group is defined as a group that
tries by force or intimidation to make you
embrace their philosophy or beliefs.
7
There are several educational terrorists in every
university!
8
The most deadly of all sins is the mutilation of
a childs spirit.Martin Luther
9
A excellent teacher should not be reproducing
clones of his or her self but helping students
discover their individuality and creative ability.
10
You cant teach a man anything, you can only
help him discover it within himself.Galileo
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Seventeenth century educational reformer John
Amos Comenius described schools as the
slaughterhouses of the mind.
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Charles Dickens referred to school methodologies
as childhood with its beauty gone, and only its
helplessness remaining.
13
Many highly successful persons were behavioral
problems in school!
14
If you were bouncing off the walls and colored
outside the lines in school, you probably were
drugged!
15
Curriculum writers of the early 1900s referred to
students as the raw material and educated adults
as the final product.John Lundt
16
Education MantraThe students are empty vessels
waiting to be filled with knowledge.
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire
to be kindled!Plutarch
18
The University remains a Medevil Institution!
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I am alarmed at the tendency of higher
educational institutions to credential rather
than educate!Jane Jacobs
20
Education is all about rationing prestige in
most universities. It has nothing to do with
seeking knowledge.McKenzie Wark
21
Half of what students learn in their freshman
year about the cutting edge of science and
technology is obsolete, revised, or taken for
granted by their senior year.
22
The half-life of an engineers knowledge- as
little as three years in some fields- will
rapidly shrink. Constant retraining is essential
to keep people from becoming increasingly less
qualified for their jobs.
23
The half life of most college degrees is 3 years!
24
A good majority of the courses required in a
degree program are fixed content courses that
could be easily passed with a online course in a
couple of weekends rather than spending tuition
and dorm money for a semester.
25
The only thing that interferes with my learning
is my education.Albert Einstein
26
We should be educating students for lifenot
just for the next event.
27
Learning isnt about facts, tests or grades,
succeeding or failing. It is an all-consuming,
joyful burst of energy and pleasure at finally
discovering something or understanding something.
28
How often have you had a discovery moment in your
educational process? Somewhere along the line,
education became a consumerist contest of
amassing skills and factoids and spewing them
back to the world like game show geeks.Leigh
Melander,PhD
29
When students become glorified databases, they
lose the analytical abilities that keep them from
being engulfed by systems without bothering to
ask if they should exist at all.Leigh Melander,
PhD
30
Education is about imagination! When we become
imaginal learners, we move beyond passive
collectors of information into creators.
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Creativity

• Creative people feed off the energy of others
  they excel when challenged and forced to confront
  and incorporate other perspectives and
  approaches.
• Creativity flourishes in diverse environments
  where there are adequate opportunities for
  cross-cultural exchange.

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I do not think there is any thrill that can go
through the human heart like that felt by the
inventor as he sees some creation of the brain
unfolding to success.Nikola Tesla
33
The religion I was raised with veneration for
human creativity and the power of ideas.Ray
Kurzweil
34
When there was a surplus of a certain crop, the
Department of Agriculture paid farmers not to
grow that particular crop.
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Maybe the Department of Education should pay
certain teachers not to teach reproducible
knowledge!
36
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire
to be kindled!Plutarch
37
Questioning, surprise and discovery is the
Scientific Method.
38
Innovation vs. educationWe are taught how to
handle problems and new phenomena with fixed
mental attitudes based on what past thinkers
thought, predetermining our response to problems
or situations.Michael Michalko
39
Innovation vs. EducationWe are taught what to
think instead of how to think. Consequently, we
tend to process information the same way over and
over again instead of searching for
alternatives.Michael Michalko
40
Schools waste 2/3s of the talent in society!
Universities sterilize the other 1/3!Edward
DeBono
41
Baron and Taylor in their book, Scientific
Creativity, state that it takes 3-5 years for a
person to recover from their University
experience before they create any new knowledge.
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With Accelerating Change, developing the creative
potential in students will be a priority for them
to survive the future!
43
Unencumbered innovation requires speed and
vigilance, and slowing down to keep an eye on the
competition is a distraction that keeps you from
your goal. The Economist, January, 2006
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The person that cannot understand and accept the
possibility that their discipline or domain might
come to a sudden end will not fare well in the
21st century.
45
If you want to make enemies, try to change
something.Woodrow Wilson
46
Have a healthy disrespect for the
impossible.Larry Page, co-founder and president
of Google
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Suns CEO foresees the death of the stand-alone
microprocessor by 2010, as components are reduced
to systems on a single chip. This could spell
doom for Dell and Hewlett-Packard.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead
where there is no path and leave a trail.Ralph
Waldo Emerson
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By 2014, iPod will hold the contents of the
Library of Harvard University.
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By 2017, iPod will contain the US Library of
Congress.
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20 years from now, your iPod will hold every
movie ever made.Who might that put out of
business?
59
Will any curriculums in any university in the top
ten in the US in 2020 even resemble the
curriculums of todays top ten universities?
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Will any top ten university in the US today still
be in the top ten by 2020?
61
The leading universities of the world in 2020 may
be global consortiums that bear little
resemblance to the universities of today.
62
The military has funded MIT to come up with
internet in the brain by 2018!
63
As internet in the brain is refined, new
information and discoveries are automatically
downloaded in the brain!
64
They have implanted the Library of Congress in
their heads. What are we supposed to teach them
now?
65
By 2025 MIT has refined an internet implant in
the brain. How will that effect ACT and GRE
scores?
66
If MIT has the internet in the brain perfected,
there will be wireless communication from one
brain to another.
67
If our brains are fully online, we will be able
to download new knowledge and skills. Updates
can be sent 24/7 as new discoveries are made.
Outdated knowledge can be deleted.
68
How can we base our admissions on standardized
tests when the majority of the applicants have
implants?
69
If GRE SAT scores are no longer a measure of
intelligence, how will universities decide on
admittance?
70
If information is ubiquitous to a majority of
students, how will you test them for
admission?Creativity, critical thinking and
problem solving skills will be the new standard
of measurement!
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Can they also measure curiosity, passion,
questioning and intrinsic motivation?
72
2040 Im now a knowledge facilitator,
information technologist and creativity
psychologist. There are no longer jobs defined as
classical teachers! The Smithsonian has a
building dedicated to the history of teaching.
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The university of tomorrow will not resemble the
university of today.
74
By 2020, an AI entity will earn a masters degree
from University of Phoenix.
75
Brain scanning technology is doubling each year.
We almost have the tools sufficient to begin
serious reverse engineering the human brains
principles of operation.The Singularity is Near,
Ray Kurzweil
76
Bill Gates brother-in-law just funded one hundred
million dollars to an institute dedicated to
mapping the mind. www.brainatlas.org
77
Nonbiological intelligence will be able to
download skills and knowledge from other machines
and eventually from humans.Singularity is Near,
Ray Kurzweil
78
The combination of these traditional strengths
(the pattern recognition ability of biological
human intelligence and the speed, memory capacity
and accuracy, and knowledge and skill sharing
abilities of nonbiological intelligence) will be
formidable.Kurzweil
79
Along with the accelerating improvement cycle of
nonbiological intelligence, nanotechnology will
enable the manipulation of physical reality at
the molecular level.Kurzweil
80
Billions of nanobots in the capillaries of the
brain will also vastly extend human
intelligence.Kurzweil
81
As virtual reality from within the nervous
system becomes competitive with real reality in
terms of resolution and believability, our
experiences will increasingly take place in
virtual environments.Kurzweil
82
Future machines will be human, even if they are
not biological.This will be the next step in
evolution, the next high level paradigm shift,
the next level of indirection.Kurzweil
83
Can an AI entity be awarded the Nobel Prize?
84
The implementation of artificial intelligence in
our biological systems will mark an evolutionary
leap forward for humanity, but it also implies we
will indeed become more machine than
human.Kurzweil
85
Nanobots injected in our bloodstream will destroy
pathogens, correct DNA errors, eliminate toxins
and perform many other tasks to enhance our
physical well-being. Ray Kurzweil, Futurist,
March, 2006
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Nanobots will interact with our biological
neurons. This will provide full-immersion virtual
reality incorporating all of the senses as
neurological correlates of our emotions, from
within the nervous system.Kurzweil
87
When you can shift your own conscious perspective
between your electronic and biological
components, the encapsulation and transcendence
of the biological may begin to feel like only
growth, not death.PersonalFoundation.Org.
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When will you need a firewall for your brain?
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Mans mind, once stretched by a new idea, never
regains its original dimensions.Oliver Wendell
Holmes, Jr.
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The future belongs to people who see
possibilities before they become obvious.Ted
Levitt
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Jeff Hawkins, who developed Palm, is working on a
computer memory system modeled after the human
neocortex, named Hierarchical Temporal Memory.
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When you mother dies in 2050, your digital mom
will be 50 her. When you best friend dies in
2080, you digital best friend will be 80 him.
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By the time of the Singularity, there wont be a
distinction between humans and technology.
Machines will have progressed to be like humans
and beyond.Kurzweil
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When Innovation HappensShift Happens!
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Change is hardest on those caught by surprise!
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Curiosity about the future will lead to
commitment and the sense of possibility will
expand into the excitement of creation.Sumantro
Ghoshal
97
Knowledge Workers of the Information Age will be
equated to the assembly line workers of the
Twenty first Century!
98
Two thirds of the jobs that will be available in
the world by 2020 havent been invented yet!
99
In less than 20 years, the majority of college
graduates will be working at jobs that dont even
exist today!
100
As world economies come up and the environment
gets ever more competitive, the US educational
environment gets ever more competitive and the US
educational infrastructure is struggling to keep
up. Gautam Godhwani, CEO, SimplyHired.com
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Many of todays exciting jobs didnt really exist
10 years ago and the exciting professions of
tomorrow have yet to be imagined. What you want
to learn is how to learn from your education
system. Allison Overholt, Fast Company, March,
2006
102
The changing nature of technology means that
youll be in the job market, all the time, even
if youre happily employed. Allison Overholt,
Fast Company, March, 2006
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We are experiencing a Cambrian explosion of
innovations that will impact every aspect of how
we live, work and play.John Seely Brown, chief
scientist, Xerox Corp.
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Knowledge creators are the only people whose jobs
cannot be outsourced.
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The institutions that do not nurture knowledge
creators will become lower tier universities.
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The institutions that do not empower their
students to participate in creating the future
will become lower tier universities.
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Institutions that are fixated on rigid
curriculums will become lower tier universities.
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Will the agencies that give accreditation to
universities on bodies of present and past
knowledge be able to cope in an age of
accelerating discovery change that is creating
domains that have no accrediting agencies?
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In the Innovation Age, will universities receive
accreditation based on the numbers of knowledge
creators they graduate? The number of new domains
they create? The new knowledge they generate?
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When change was not accelerating, accreditation
agencies guaranteed a base level of competency.
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By the time an agency is formed to accredit a new
domain in an age of accelerating change, the
domain may have disappeared or morphed beyond
recognition.
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If by 2020, two thirds of the jobs available in
the world havent been invented yet, how will
young learners cope with change?
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It is better to fail in originality than to
succeed in imitation.Herman Melville
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While the majority of universities proudly
reproduce knowledge workers,future progress in
the world will depend on the knowledge creators.
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The rankings of universities or consortiums in
the world by 2020 will be based on the numbers
and quality of knowledge creators they graduate!
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The University will be the least prepared to
prepare you for a world of change!Paul Tinari
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A good majority of the courses required in a
degree program are fixed content courses that
could be easily passed with a online course in a
couple of weekends rather than spending tuition
and dorm money for a semester.
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Some learning comes from teaching, but a great
deal also come from exploration, interaction and
sheer curiosity. In fact, that is how we learn
how to walk and talk, not by sitting in a
classroom.Nicholas Negroponte, MIT Media Lab
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How many of our university curriculums (or
professors) focus on an idealized pastthat may
be eroding in the present as we speakand may
not even exist in the near future?
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Everyone wants economic growth, but nobody
wants change.Paul Romer, Stanford economist
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The fixed person for the fixed duties who in
older societies was such a godsend, in the future
will be a public danger. Alfred North Whitehead
British Futurist
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If universities arent responding to future
needs, are they prepared to go out of business?
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Creativity abounds on campuses. In most cases,
creativity flourishes in spite of university
policies.Steven Tepper, Chronicle of Higher
Education
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America has lost its edge in research. Fewer US
students are earning doctorates in science and
engineering, which means fewer researcher in
labs. European Asian nations have picked up the
pace and several spend more of their gross
domestic product on RD than we do. The World is
Flat, Thomas Friedman
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There is a quiet crisis in America. It is the
steady erosion of our scientific and engineering
base which has always been the source of American
innovation and our rising standard of living.
The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman
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For the first time in more than a century, the
US could well find itself falling behind other
countries in the capacity for scientific
discovery, innovation and economic
development.The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman
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The US now ranks seventeenth in the world for
numbers of science degrees. Asian countries now
produce eight times as many engineering
bachelors degrees as the US.60 of all
bachelors degrees in China are science and
engineering.
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The US only has 5 of degrees awarded in
engineering compared to 25 in Russia and 46 in
China.
129
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics projected that
science and engineering occupations would
increase at three times the rate of all
occupations!
130
You talk to the leadership in China, and they
are all scientists and engineers, and they get
what is going on immediately. The Americans
dont, because theyre all lawyers.Venture
capitalist John Doerr
131
The Chinese have risk taking down, hard work
down, education, and when you meet with Chinese
politicians, they are all scientists and
engineers. You are meeting with an intelligent
bureaucracy. Bill Gates
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Around 2000, a platform was created where
intellectual capital could be delivered from
anywhere. It could be disaggregated, delivered,
distributed, produced and put back together
again. The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman
133
Countries are now able to compete for global
knowledge work as never before. It is now
possible for more people than ever to collaborate
and compete in real time on a more equal footing.
The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman
134
Out of clutter, find simplicity.From discord,
find harmony.In the middle of difficulty, lies
opportunity.Albert Einstein
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Creativity is the Global currency of the new
millennia! Mind capital develops intellectual
property, the coin of the realm
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A person who never made a mistake never tried
anything new.Einstein
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It was not a 100 times I failed, but I learned a
100 ways something didnt work.Thomas Jefferson
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Celebrate failures!Celebrate successes!
139
The evolutionary process of technology improves
capacities in an exponential fashion. Innovation
is multiplicative, not additive.Kurzweil
140
Discovery is an instance of god-like
apprehension, comprehension of our place as
partners in a creative universe.Shakespeare
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When do you think the first class action law suit
against a school system might be launched for not
preparing the student for the future?
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SUPERLONGEVITY REVOLUTIONThe medical miracles
are unfolding at a rate so pronounced that we
know an exponential increase in the human life
span is both inevitable and imminent.
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New career patterns will emerge as people have
the ability to work for 9 or ten decades.
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It will become the norm for those in their 40s,
50s and 60s to withdraw from the labor force,
return to school and start a whole new
career.Michael Zey, Futurist, Nov. 2005
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The Superlongevity Revolution will require
everyone to become a lifetime learner. People
will be able to work for decades longer than
todays employees.
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The more lifetime learning opportunities that
companies provide, the more they are both
widening the skill base of their own workforce
and fulfilling a moral obligation to workers
whose jobs may be outsourced.
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As employees are outsourced, when do you think
the first class action law suit will be filed
against industry for failing to continually
educate their employees?
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Have a healthy disrespect for the
impossible.Larry Page, co-founder and president
of Google
149
Learn to think anew in order to act
anew.Abraham Lincoln
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If you die, who gets your email? Have you
specified it in a will?
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Before entering the school system, the young
child asks 125 probing questions a day. After the
university experience, the young adult asks a
mere six!
152
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for
existing.Albert Einstein
153
One of Peter Ustinovs grade-school teachers
wrote on his report card Peter shows great
originality, which must be curbed at all costs.
154
A terrorist group is defined as a group that
tries by force or intimidation to make you
embrace their philosophy or beliefs.
155
There are several educational terrorists in every
university!
156
The most deadly of all sins is the mutilation of
a childs spirit.Martin Luther
157
A excellent teacher should not be reproducing
clones of his or her self but helping students
discover their individuality and creative ability.
158
You cant teach a man anything, you can only
help him discover it within himself.Galileo
159
Seventeenth century educational reformer John
Amos Comenius described schools as the
slaughterhouses of the mind.
160
Charles Dickens referred to school methodologies
as childhood with its beauty gone, and only its
helplessness remaining.
161
Many highly successful persons were behavioral
problems in school!
162
If you were bouncing off the walls and colored
outside the lines in school, you probably were
drugged!
163
Curriculum writers of the early 1900s referred to
students as the raw material and educated adults
as the final product.John Lundt
164
Education MantraThe students are empty vessels
waiting to be filled with knowledge.
165
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire
to be kindled!Plutarch
166
The University remains a Medevil Institution!
167
I am alarmed at the tendency of higher
educational institutions to credential rather
than educate!Jane Jacobs
168
Education is all about rationing prestige in
most universities. It has nothing to do with
seeking knowledge.McKenzie Wark
169
Half of what students learn in their freshman
year about the cutting edge of science and
technology is obsolete, revised, or taken for
granted by their senior year.
170
The half-life of an engineers knowledge- as
little as three years in some fields- will
rapidly shrink. Constant retraining is essential
to keep people from becoming increasingly less
qualified for their jobs.
171
The half life of most college degrees is 3 years!
172
A good majority of the courses required in a
degree program are fixed content courses that
could be easily passed with a online course in a
couple of weekends rather than spending tuition
and dorm money for a semester.
173
The only thing that interferes with my learning
is my education.Albert Einstein
174
We should be educating students for lifenot
just for the next event.
175
Learning isnt about facts, tests or grades,
succeeding or failing. It is an all-consuming,
joyful burst of energy and pleasure at finally
discovering something or understanding something.
176
How often have you had a discovery moment in your
educational process? Somewhere along the line,
education became a consumerist contest of
amassing skills and factoids and spewing them
back to the world like game show geeks.Leigh
Melander,PhD
177
When students become glorified databases, they
lose the analytical abilities that keep them from
being engulfed by systems without bothering to
ask if they should exist at all.Leigh Melander,
PhD
178
Education is about imagination! When we become
imaginal learners, we move beyond passive
collectors of information into creators.
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Creativity

• Creative people feed off the energy of others
  they excel when challenged and forced to confront
  and incorporate other perspectives and
  approaches.
• Creativity flourishes in diverse environments
  where there are adequate opportunities for
  cross-cultural exchange.

180
I do not think there is any thrill that can go
through the human heart like that felt by the
inventor as he sees some creation of the brain
unfolding to success.Nikola Tesla
181
The religion I was raised with veneration for
human creativity and the power of ideas.Ray
Kurzweil
182
When there was a surplus of a certain crop, the
Department of Agriculture paid farmers not to
grow that particular crop.
183
Maybe the Department of Education should pay
certain teachers not to teach reproducible
knowledge!
184
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire
to be kindled!Plutarch
185
Questioning, surprise and discovery is the
Scientific Method.
186
Innovation vs. educationWe are taught how to
handle problems and new phenomena with fixed
mental attitudes based on what past thinkers
thought, predetermining our response to problems
or situations.Michael Michalko
187
Innovation vs. EducationWe are taught what to
think instead of how to think. Consequently, we
tend to process information the same way over and
over again instead of searching for
alternatives.Michael Michalko
188
Schools waste 2/3s of the talent in society!
Universities sterilize the other 1/3!Edward
DeBono
189
Baron and Taylor in their book, Scientific
Creativity, state that it takes 3-5 years for a
person to recover from their University
experience before they create any new knowledge.
190
With Accelerating Change, developing the creative
potential in students will be a priority for them
to survive the future!
191
Unencumbered innovation requires speed and
vigilance, and slowing down to keep an eye on the
competition is a distraction that keeps you from
your goal. The Economist, January, 2006
192
The person that cannot understand and accept the
possibility that their discipline or domain might
come to a sudden end will not fare well in the
21st century.
193
If you want to make enemies, try to change
something.Woodrow Wilson
194
Have a healthy disrespect for the
impossible.Larry Page, co-founder and president
of Google
195
Suns CEO foresees the death of the stand-alone
microprocessor by 2010, as components are reduced
to systems on a single chip. This could spell
doom for Dell and Hewlett-Packard.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead
where there is no path and leave a trail.Ralph
Waldo Emerson
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By 2014, iPod will hold the contents of the
Library of Harvard University.
205
By 2017, iPod will contain the US Library of
Congress.
206
20 years from now, your iPod will hold every
movie ever made.Who might that put out of
business?
207
Will any curriculums in any university in the top
ten in the US in 2020 even resemble the
curriculums of todays top ten universities?
208
Will any top ten university in the US today still
be in the top ten by 2020?
209
The leading universities of the world in 2020 may
be global consortiums that bear little
resemblance to the universities of today.
210
The military has funded MIT to come up with
internet in the brain by 2018!
211
If MIT has the internet in the brain perfected,
there will be wireless communication from one
brain to another.
212
As internet in the brain is refined, new
information and discoveries are automatically
downloaded in the brain!
213
They have implanted the Library of Congress in
their heads. What are we supposed to teach them
now?
214
By 2025 MIT has refined an internet implant in
the brain. How will that effect ACT and GRE
scores?
215
If MIT has the internet in the brain perfected,
there will be wireless communication from one
brain to another.
216
If our brains are fully online, we will be able
to download new knowledge and skills. Updates
can be sent 24/7 as new discoveries are made.
Outdated knowledge can be deleted.
217
How can we base our admissions on standardized
tests when the majority of the applicants have
implants?
218
If GRE SAT scores are no longer a measure of
intelligence, how will universities decide on
admittance?
219
If information is ubiquitous to a majority of
students, how will you test them for
admission?Creativity, critical thinking and
problem solving skills will be the new standard
of measurement!
220
Can they also measure curiosity, passion,
questioning and intrinsic motivation?
221
2040 Im now a knowledge facilitator,
information technologist and creativity
psychologist. There are no longer jobs defined as
classical teachers! The Smithsonian has a
building dedicated to the history of teaching.
222
The university of tomorrow will not resemble the
university of today.
223
By 2020, an AI entity will earn a masters degree
from University of Phoenix.
224
Brain scanning technology is doubling each year.
We almost have the tools sufficient to begin
serious reverse engineering the human brains
principles of operation.The Singularity is Near,
Ray Kurzweil
225
Bill Gates brother-in-law just funded one hundred
million dollars to an institute dedicated to
mapping the mind. www.brainatlas.org
226
Nonbiological intelligence will be able to
download skills and knowledge from other machines
and eventually from humans.Singularity is Near,
Ray Kurzweil
227
The combination of these traditional strengths
(the pattern recognition ability of biological
human intelligence and the speed, memory capacity
and accuracy, and knowledge and skill sharing
abilities of nonbiological intelligence) will be
formidable.Kurzweil
228
Along with the accelerating improvement cycle of
nonbiological intelligence, nanotechnology will
enable the manipulation of physical reality at
the molecular level.Kurzweil
229
Billions of nanobots in the capillaries of the
brain will also vastly extend human
intelligence.Kurzweil
230
As virtual reality from within the nervous
system becomes competitive with real reality in
terms of resolution and believability, our
experiences will increasingly take place in
virtual environments.Kurzweil
231
Future machines will be human, even if they are
not biological.This will be the next step in
evolution, the next high level paradigm shift,
the next level of indirection.Kurzweil
232
Can an AI entity be awarded the Nobel Prize?
233
The implementation of artificial intelligence in
our biological systems will mark an evolutionary
leap forward for humanity, but it also implies we
will indeed become more machine than
human.Kurzweil
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Nanobots injected in our bloodstream will destroy
pathogens, correct DNA errors, eliminate toxins
and perform many other tasks to enhance our
physical well-being. Ray Kurzweil, Futurist,
March, 2006
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Nanobots will interact with our biological
neurons. This will provide full-immersion virtual
reality incorporating all of the senses as
neurological correlates of our emotions, from
within the nervous system.Kurzweil
236
When you can shift your own conscious perspective
between your electronic and biological
components, the encapsulation and transcendence
of the biological may begin to feel like only
growth, not death.PersonalFoundation.Org.
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When will you need a firewall for your brain?
238
Mans mind, once stretched by a new idea, never
regains its original dimensions.Oliver Wendell
Holmes, Jr.
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The future belongs to people who see
possibilities before they become obvious.Ted
Levitt
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Jeff Hawkins, who developed Palm, is working on a
computer memory system modeled after the human
neocortex, named Hierarchical Temporal Memory.
241
When you mother dies in 2050, your digital mom
will be 50 her. When you best friend dies in
2080, you digital best friend will be 80 him.
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By the time of the Singularity, there wont be a
distinction between humans and technology.
Machines will have progressed to be like humans
and beyond.Kurzweil
243
When Innovation HappensShift Happens!
244
Change is hardest on those caught by surprise!
245
Curiosity about the future will lead to
commitment and the sense of possibility will
expand into the excitement of creation.Sumantro
Ghoshal
246
Knowledge Workers of the Information Age will be
equated to the assembly line workers of the
Twenty first Century!
247
Two thirds of the jobs that will be available in
the world by 2020 havent been invented yet!
248
In less than 20 years, the majority of college
graduates will be working at jobs that dont even
exist today!
249
As world economies come up and the environment
gets ever more competitive, the US educational
environment gets ever more competitive and the US
educational infrastructure is struggling to keep
up. Gautam Godhwani, CEO, SimplyHired.com
250
Many of todays exciting jobs didnt really exist
10 years ago and the exciting professions of
tomorrow have yet to be imagined. What you want
to learn is how to learn from your education
system. Allison Overholt, Fast Company, March,
2006
251
The changing nature of technology means that
youll be in the job market, all the time, even
if youre happily employed. Allison Overholt,
Fast Company, March, 2006
252
We are experiencing a Cambrian explosion of
innovations that will impact every aspect of how
we live, work and play.John Seely Brown, chief
scientist, Xerox Corp.
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Knowledge creators are the only people whose jobs
cannot be outsourced.
254
The institutions that do not nurture knowledge
creators will become lower tier universities.
255
The institutions that do not empower their
students to participate in creating the future
will become lower tier universities.
256
Institutions that are fixated on rigid
curriculums will become lower tier universities.
257
Will the agencies that give accreditation to
universities on bodies of present and past
knowledge be able to cope in an age of
accelerating discovery change that is creating
domains that have no accrediting agencies?
258
In the Innovation Age, will universities receive
accreditation based on the numbers of knowledge
creators they graduate? The number of new domains
they create? The new knowledge they generate?
259
When change was not accelerating, accreditation
agencies guaranteed a base level of competency.
260
By the time an agency is formed to accredit a new
domain in an age of accelerating change, the
domain may have disappeared or morphed beyond
recognition.
261
If by 2020, two thirds of the jobs available in
the world havent been invented yet, how will
young learners cope with change?
262
It is better to fail in originality than to
succeed in imitation.Herman Melville
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While the majority of universities proudly
reproduce knowledge workers,future progress in
the world will depend on the knowledge creators.
264
The rankings of universities or consortiums in
the world by 2020 will be based on the numbers
and quality of knowledge creators they graduate!
265
The University will be the least prepared to
prepare you for a world of change!Paul Tinari
266
A good majority of the courses required in a
degree program are fixed content courses that
could be easily passed with a online course in a
couple of weekends rather than spending tuition
and dorm money for a semester.
267
Some learning comes from teaching, but a great
deal also come from exploration, interaction and
sheer curiosity. In fact, that is how we learn
how to walk and talk, not by sitting in a
classroom.Nicholas Negroponte, MIT Media Lab
268
How many of our university curriculums (or
professors) focus on an idealized pastthat may
be eroding in the present as we speakand may
not even exist in the near future?
269
Everyone wants economic growth, but nobody
wants change.Paul Romer, Stanford economist
270
The fixed person for the fixed duties who in
older societies was such a godsend, in the future
will be a public danger. Alfred North Whitehead
British Futurist
271
If universities arent responding to future
needs, are they prepared to go out of business?
272
Creativity abounds on campuses. In most cases,
creativity flourishes in spite of university
policies.Steven Tepper, Chronicle of Higher
Education
273
America has lost its edge in research. Fewer US
students are earning doctorates in science and
engineering, which means fewer researcher in
labs. European Asian nations have picked up the
pace and several spend more of their gross
domestic product on RD than we do. The World is
Flat, Thomas Friedman
274
There is a quiet crisis in America. It is the
steady erosion of our scientific and engineering
base which has always been the source of American
innovation and our rising standard of living.
The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman
275
For the first time in more than a century, the
US could well find itself falling behind other
countries in the capacity for scientific
discovery, innovation and economic
development.The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman
276
The US now ranks seventeenth in the world for
numbers of science degrees. Asian countries now
produce eight times as many engineering
bachelors degrees as the US.60 of all
bachelors degrees in China are science and
engineering.
277
The US only has 5 of degrees awarded in
engineering compared to 25 in Russia and 46 in
China.
278
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics projected that
science and engineering occupations would
increase at three times the rate of all
occupations!
279
You talk to the leadership in China, and they
are all scientists and engineers, and they get
what is going on immediately. The Americans
dont, because theyre all lawyers.Venture
capitalist John Doerr
280
The Chinese have risk taking down, hard work
down, education, and when you meet with Chinese
politicians, they are all scientists and
engineers. You are meeting with an intelligent
bureaucracy. Bill Gates
281
Around 2000, a platform was created where
intellectual capital could be delivered from
anywhere. It could be disaggregated, delivered,
distributed, produced and put back together
again. The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman
282
Countries are now able to compete for global
knowledge work as never before. It is now
possible for more people than ever to collaborate
and compete in real time on a more equal footing.
The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman
283
Out of clutter, find simplicity.From discord,
find harmony.In the middle of difficulty, lies
opportunity.Albert Einstein
284
Creativity is the Global currency of the new
millennia! Mind capital develops intellectual
property, the coin of the realm
285
A person who never made a mistake never tried
anything new.Einstein
286
It was not a 100 times I failed, but I learned a
100 ways something didnt work.Thomas Jefferson
287
Celebrate failures!Celebrate successes!
288
The evolutionary process of technology improves
capacities in an exponential fashion. Innovation
is multiplicative, not additive.Kurzweil
289
Discovery is an instance of god-like
apprehension, comprehension of our place as
partners in a creative universe.Shakespeare
290
When do you think the first class action law suit
against a school system might be launched for not
preparing the student for the future?
291
SUPERLONGEVITY REVOLUTIONThe medical miracles
are unfolding at a rate so pronounced that we
know an exponential increase in the human life
span is both inevitable and imminent.
292
New career patterns will emerge as people have
the ability to work for 9 or ten decades.
293
It will become the norm for those in their 40s,
50s and 60s to withdraw from the labor force,
return to school and start a whole new
career.Michael Zey, Futurist, Nov. 2005
294
The Superlongevity Revolution will require
everyone to become a lifetime learner. People
will be able to work for decades longer than
todays employees.
295
The more lifetime learning opportunities that
companies provide, the more they are both
widening the skill base of their own workforce
and fulfilling a moral obligation to workers
whose jobs may be outsourced.
296
As employees are outsourced, when do you think
the first class action law suit will be filed
against industry for failing to continually
educate their employees?
297
Have a healthy disrespect for the
impossible.Larry Page, co-founder and president
of Google
298
Learn to think anew in order to act
anew.Abraham Lincoln