The Education Paradigm

We are currently deep within the technological age of computers and information at our fingertips.  It happened so fast the average Joe today takes today's technology for granted.  Sadly though, our education system has faltered and failed to embrace the recent advancements.  Even failing to see what such a shift in available information means to the average student today.

"Google It!"

This is a common phrase today.  If we don't know something, we simple grab our smart phone, press a button, and speak, "Google, who is Paul Revere?".  We are quickly presented with an almost overwhelming amount of options about the subject.  So I ask..  why are the schools so focused on what to learn and not how to learn?  We need artists, individuals that can take different unrelated objects and create something new and that will benefit all of mankind!  We mathematicians with the intuition to see a solution before they have the proof.  This is what our education systems should focus on.  Not mundane memorization of facts that are readily available on every smartphone in the world.

Don't get me wrong, a general background is important to applying context to innovation, but those are stories to inspire not facts and dates.

I would vote for an education reform, but I fear the purpose of the current educational shortcomings is a system of control to ensure the people remain simple, unimaginative.  I refuse to be a sheep. Be gone with the mundane jobs, we have brains and we should use them.