THE NEED TO REINVENT EDUCATION: TO SURVIVE THE FUTURE WE HAVE BEEN INVENTINGHarish Shah (Sole-Proprietor @ Stratserv Consultancy, Singapore)

LET’S TALK ABOUT THE PRESENT

• The Present is the result of what we collectively did in the Past;

• The Convergence of the following have lead to our Present:

• Our Decisions, Choices, Actions, Efforts, Plans, Labour, Inventions, Innovations and Transactions

• We are all collectively responsible for the State of the Present

• We are all collectively responsible for how the Present came about

LET’S TALK ABOUT THE FUTURE

• Similarly to the Present, the Future is what we are making it

• We are all collectively responsible for the Future

• The Future is a direct outcome of the Convergences of Occurrences & Developments in the Present and the Past

• The Occurrences & Developments of the Present and the Past leading to the Future are a result of:

• Our Collective Decisions, Choices, Actions, Efforts, Plans, Labour, Inventions, Innovations and Transactions

• We are effectively inventing the Future (Collectively)

• The key word is “Convergence”

THE FUTURE WE ARE INVENTING

• Mass-Automation

• Robotisation

• Virtualisation

• Mass-Integration

• “SMART” World

• Limitless Communication

PICTURE OF OUR FUTURE

• Singapore and London to pilot-test Autonomous Vehicles on roads before end of 2015

• Japan to have world’s first completely Robot-run Hotel before end of 2015

• F&B Outlet in Singapore piloting Drone Waiters in 2015

• 3D-Printed Solar Powered car unveiled by University Students in Singapore in 2015

• Brain-to-Brain Communication Successfully Tested between India and France in 2014

THE RESULTS THAT AWAIT

• Blue Collar Jobs will Disappear

• White Collar Jobs we know today will Decrease

• Anything Repetitive or Quantitative will be Automated

• Automated Commerce (a-Commerce) will be a dominant Business Model

• Human-free

• We will have severely damaged our Environment and Climate along the way (will need Fixing)

• We are a Major Existential Risk upon ourselves

• There will be new Opportunities and Needs for Human Contribution

• At Higher Intellectual Levels

THE PROBLEM

• The Current Education System of the World is not Helping:• Us to prepare for our survival in our Future that we are creating

• Us to develop the Labour Force necessary for the Future that we are creating

• The Global Education System of Today:• Is preparing our children for competencies required for jobs or types of occupational work

that will no longer exist

• Is not preparing our children for competencies required for new jobs or new types of occupational work that will come into existence

• Is not ensuring supply of enough graduates for the Future that is coming

• There is a mismatch between the Output that the Education System is or will be Producing and the Input the Economy ahead will require

THE NEED

• Meritocracy

• Access to Education

• Incentivised Education

• Free Education

• Free of Cost

• Free of Restriction

• Free of Limitation

• Needs-Based Learning (Needs of the student)

• Strength-Based Learning (Strength of the student)

• Customised Education

THANK YOU