WEF blog post: Why we need both science and humanities for a Fourth Industrial Revolution education
The potential automation of many jobs raises some big and tricky questions, but one of these hasn’t received sufficient attention: what is the true purpose of education at a time when machines are getting smarter and smarter?
I’ve spent my career working with some of the brightest engineers in technology and greatest humanitarians at the UN thinking about how we could bring the benefits of innovation to our customers and society worldwide. The latest and most powerful of these is the impending launch of the fifth generation (5G) wireless network, which can handle 1,000 times more data volume than the systems in place today.
As technology evolves, it’s become increasingly clear to me that our education systems are not preparing people for the opportunities that 5G and other Fourth Industrial Revolution breakthroughs will present. Educators, policy-makers, non-profits and the business community need to confront this fact – even if (especially if) this means questioning long-standing practices and trendy assumptions.
Please read the rest of my post here: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/09/why-we-need-both-science-and-humanities-for-a-fourth-industrial-revolution-education/
Hans, thanks for sharing!
SAP Project Manager
4 年Having both, a humanities and a technical background myself, I can only confirm your theses but would take it more general. First: it has nothing to do with 5G. Second, wherever one need sensitivity about non tangible aspects, creativity, in case of philosophers pure logical argumentation, occam's razor applications - an employee with certain humanities background can contribute. Leading projects, developing products, driving transformations. For a lot of tasks you need both sides of your brain to be successful.
BA Architecture Design, Founder, Inventor, 50+ yrs in construction, Sustainability and Justice/Equality Advocate, Active Shooter prevention and response, Business Continuity Advisor, Environmental and Disaster Analyst
4 年over the last several decades i have trained over 200 unemployed in my community who had "barriers to employment". the common denominator was a lack of early childhood education. if one does not read well, one cannot learn well, if at all. without early math skills, critical path thinking suffers. thank you Hans Vestberg?for spotlighting the issue.
DevOps Engineer at Northrop Grumman
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