Education In 50 Years: A Futurist’s Perspective

Hi everyone.
I had written this essay for a competition a while back and won second place yay!
Hope You Like it Too. :)

Any response to the above topic is bound to allude to futuristic classrooms, use of google glasses, stimulated learning environments, etc. However, according to me, the advancements in technology and psychology will not come to describe the classroom of tomorrow themselves, but rather be the reason for the changes that we shall see in the decades to come.

Victor Hugo, had once said, “Nothing can stop an idea whose time has come.” Indeed it’s one of the most powerful of forces, and when in flow, it’s no less potent than any fury of nature. This simple harmless looking one syllable word is going to be the sanctum-sanctorum of the education system of tomorrow.

Standing in 2015, we focus on learning facts and techniques, but even today, in the age of the World Wide Web, such information is but a few clicks away. If we don’t know who the first man to walk on the moon was, then all we need to do is to whip out our smartphones and make a quick google search. Fifty years down the line, we may not even need to whip out our smartphones! Ideas on the other hand, are of a different breed. Before, going to its applications, let us first try to understand this mythical creature. An idea in its simplest form…