The swirling forces of speed of change, increasing complexity, and disappearing jobs have bred widespread insecurity and uncertainty.
You can no longer buy success tomorrow with what you know today. You can no longer relay on your employer to provide a job for life. (...)
In spite of incredible technological advances we live In an age when to much schooling is stuck In the horse-and-buggy days.
The scenario of row after row deskbound children watching and listening to teacher lecturing at them, is unfortunately all too often as familiar a sight today as it was a hundred years ago. The school curriculum has students bouncing from the science to mathematics to geography to social studies, having dates, numbers, and facts relentlessly drummed into them in compartmentalized subjects. All without the students having had the benefit of those two most essential lessons of all - learning how to learn, and learning how to think - while tackling projects that challenge them to bring their minds to bear on complex real problems.

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Extract from "Accelerated Learning for the 21st Century" by Colin Rose

I believe that the core competencies of 21st century are the following:

• Learning how to learn skills
• Thinking skills
• Mental toughness
• Emotional intelligence
• Citizen responsibilities
• We would like to invite you to our conference "Best Business Practices for Education Sector",

President of the Institute of Innovative Education
Grzegorz Pytkowski

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