After 7000+ Hours of Teaching, I Started Telling Students to Stay Away from Classrooms

One size doesn’t fit all, especially in the digital age. Everything is hyper-personalized now; products and services we receive including our Starbucks orders, Facebook feed and Netflix suggestions are customized based on our unique background.

So why insisting on classrooms, where all students get the same lecture? Why are we still trying to fit people with a diverse set of skills, interests and aspirations into one learning path? To this day, I haven’t heard a good answer to this question. Being ineffective is not the only problem of classroom lectures; they are expensive.

What if education executives start investing billions of dollars on digital infrastructure instead of real estate? That way, maybe future professionals from Africa, India, China and other growing markets could start creating a bigger value for the fourth industrial revolution, along with underprivileged groups living in developed countries.