The Most Innovative School In The World?
Tom Cassidy
Comprehensivist, education reformer, and Principal of Cambridge Leadership College.
'The first ever school to go boldly where none has gone before, and hit the future head on, with unbridled optimism...'
A tsunami of change is coming.
Over the next two decades, artificial intelligence will transform the service sector and professions in the same way that automation did to agriculture and manufacturing in the 20th century. Half of today’s jobs will disappear and new industries will spring up.
Most schools today are preparing students perfectly for a job in 1970, despite the overwhelming evidence that a traditional education is no longer enough.
You still need academic qualifications of course, but these become no more than the table stakes for entry into the market. You’ll need much more than a good degree to thrive over the duration of your career in an evolving world.
In order for you to become future-proof, you need to become entrepreneurial; a creator, a big-picture thinker, a risk-taker and a fast learner.
Humans will always be valuable when applying their creative genius to situations which are uncertain, indeterminate, or unpredictable. Mankind will continue to have the edge over robots in the creation of a new solution, the design of a new product, the implementation of a new approach: all of which are trademarks of the entrepreneur.
You will need to be entrepreneurial, but not necessarily an entrepreneur.
You could still practise medicine, but be a doctor with an entrepreneurial mindset, always looking to do new things, to develop, to grow, to change, to improve.
Whatever your path, in order to be successful you’ll need to have tremendous self-discipline, highly developed powers of discernment and the ability to effectively communicate. You’ll need to be a master of your thoughts, and captain of your actions. You’ll need to assimilate new information rapidly and connect the dots, see the bigger picture, and go beyond a specific specialism to ‘see how it all joins up.’
Cambridge Leadership College is the first school in the world to inspire, equip and nurture teenage entrepreneurs.
While many business schools and universities offer courses in business and entrepreneurship, we are the first school to provide this opportunity to 16-19 year olds. You will study for a minimum of 3 International A levels while running your own business.
As you saw in the video clip, we call this approach Learning By Creating.
It's exciting and it works. But don't listen to me, don't listen to anyone, come to a Taster Week and see for yourself...
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8 年Tom , Greetings from NZ. Sounds great, wish I could go to school again, altough I did go to the first United World College.......Wish you good luck .......Love to Cindy & Boys
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8 年Well done Tom and good luck!
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8 年Tom! You are spot on! Like minds are entangled. I got up this morning and I was saying to myself that my daughter must get her 10, 14 and 17 year old children to become ENTREPRENEURS. My deceased mum was a very successful ENTREPRENEUR. I have extracted her ENTREPRENEURIAL principles and strategies and I am going to pass them on to my grand-children. Thanks for this timely article.