Is Your Education Ongoing?

At Living Well Lodges we are experimentally building an internal school to help mentor and education all employees, as we strive to promote better leadership, team building, relationships, and ongoing personal education.

I recently read that during the Industrial Age schooling for children utilized a system that blocked much of their imagination and creativity, because schooling was to prepare children for assembly line jobs.  Kids the same age were placed in one room, taught the same things, in the same way, at the same time - to make them all the same. Ideally, they would all graduate at the same age, with the same skills and information base, and work at the same speed. That type of schooling was perfect for the needs of assembly line technology where conformity is more effective than creativity. The result for many was  the acceptance of being average, when each of us is really unique and special by birthright.  

The Information Age has vastly different needs than the Industrial Age. We have moved from the factory work culture where almost everyone does much the same job, to the office where the culture is much more diverse. More and more assembly line jobs are handled by robots and computer assisted engineering.  Humans are now free to do jobs where they must solve problems and think creatively. The primary thinking skills needed today are knowing how to come up with new ideas, and how to figure things out; innovation and problem solving. Ongoing growth (learning) is vital to keep pace with our rapidly changing world.