One of my thoughts about the future is that, with respect to education, teachers will become more important as facilitators for knowledge, for the transmissions of core values in society (whatever they might be), and for the human presence. Other than that, the teaching of the subjects themselves will be all about technology and immersive experiences.
By facilitators of knowledge I mean – critical enquiry of the knowledge that learners acquire and applications and the learner’s own contributions.
I suspect that in that future, every kid will be able to pursue their own passions, through the customization of their own syllabus and curriculum. That means every kid will be able to learn slightly different things, even construct their own synthesis between different areas of knowledge. The trend with education has always been the introduction of more complex material at a younger age. In time to come, I suspect kids in kindergarten would be able to learn quantum mechanics/relativity. Who knows?
