Schools as Institutional Fail?

Karl Fisch once observed "We are currently preparing students for jobs that don't yet exist, using technologies that haven't been invented yet, in order to solve problems we don't even know are problems yet. " Yet, we continue to produce graduates at an alarming rate. As educators, we must ask the question: do we know what we're equipping our graduates to be? By not preparing our graduates for the changing fabric of the world they will inherit, is it possible that we are educating our students into obsolescence?

Look Back for the Future

Many Filipino families subscribe to the notion that a college education is necessary for success. All over the country, hardworking parents continually admonish their children “The only thing we can bequeath is a good education.” But what if a college education in the wasn’t necessary for success? Even worse, what if a college education didn’t prepare you for success?