To prosper in future, workers will need new skills and a different education. And that means rethinking how you gain qualifications.
The job market has never offered any guarantees. Mechanisation wiped out once-secure careers in manufacturing. Now artificial intelligence is coming for a future generation of jobs that had seemed safe, starting with software coding and back-office work. So what can you do about it?
More people going to college also means more bad outcomes: more dropouts and more degrees that don’t pay off. Meanwhile, the price of education has rocketed. So no surprise that many people are asking if college is even worth it any more.If the past is any guide, thriving in an age of technological innovation requires being adaptable and finding different ways to add value.
Interpersonal skills will also be prized. High-touch human time will be the rarest of commodities. Most importantly, thriving will require constantly learning new things and adapting swiftly because we don’t know how new technology will unfold. It’s understandable people want a clearer path to a career from their degrees, but treating college strictly as vocational education limits students’ skills. Now that critical and creative-thinking skills will be even more essential, American schools should embrace and improve on their original mission that aims to produce well-rounded thinkers.
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