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Excerpt: Armed with technology, globalization changed the way of life for many of us in a shocking span of time. The way we work, live, communicate, learn, has been completely transformed. Learning has undoubted changed too. But how will this change impact the way we value education and knowledge-based work going forward? In the past few years, more and more educational materials have moved off of campus firewalls, and onto the web for all to consume. We are talking about entire course curriculum, reading list, lecture notes and videos. When the accessibility of information is no longer constrained, and the cost…
On Learning & Education
In retrospect, I've been very lucky to have received the rigorous and high-quality education that I had. But could it have been better? Are business schools evaluating itself for the role it inadvertently played in the financial drama of 2008? Are our education systems up to snuff in the 21st century? Will technology and new communication techniques fundamentally change the way we learn? Here are some thoughts.
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Excerpt: The human mind cannot grasp the causes of phenomena in the aggregate. But the need to find these causes is inherent in man’s soul. And the human intellect, without investigating the multiplicity and complexity of the conditions of phenomena, any one of which taken separately may seem to be the cause, snatches at the first, the most intelligible approximation to a cause, and says: “This is the cause!” Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace [via The Big Picture] The populist pitch-forking movement has duly commenced, and fingers are pointed in all directions. In a classic case of pot calling the…
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Excerpt: If I was eighteen, and clueless about what I wanted to do with my life, I would do business school all over again. I’m not eighteen anymore, so I would not go back to business school. Not when there are many other ways of learning out there. 1. I’m not fit to give you any business advice A couple of months ago, a friend of mine headed back to school in a remote community in interior BC. She wrote to me, excitedly about her new surroundings. She was also excited about a business idea she’s had: the campus was set up miles away…
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Excerpt: I’ve felt ambiguous and conflicted about education for a long time, because it inspires while it stifles. But here are two ways it has always resonated with me. One is learning for learning’s sake. Now looking back, and without sounding nauseatingly cheesy, there is something pure and unadulterated in the joy of soaking in the world. I was never a science person. But I still remember in Grade 11, the excitement I felt bubbling from my belly, when trying to explain to my mom the idea of atmospheric pressure and rain formation and somehow likening it to the pan…
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