Progress today doesn’t guarantee progress in the future
What people consider progress changes as societies evolve and grow. For Australians living 100 years ago, progress might have meant all people being able to read and write, but as time moved on, progress in education meant the completion of high school, and now the completion of tertiary studies is a focus for many.
It's unrealistic to think that the benchmark of just meeting basic literacy rates would stay the same over the last 100 years. As our literacy rates improved, and more and more people received more and more education, what we consider progress changed as well.
The same will happen in the future and in other areas of life.
So, what aspects of life will matter most to future generations? If we think about this when we define progress, then we're not putting the progress of future generations at risk.
Serhat
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27/09/2011 16:44:06 Progress today doesn’t guarantee progress in the future
The above statement implies somewhat that the basics will not be basics in the future or that the basics will change, I don't rekon that is true, the three R's will always be important, futher things like being able to type @ 60wpm might qualify someone for a clerical position with the government, but broad understanding of computers will allow them to get futher regardless of qualifications. The future we will be faced with the fact that
It is not so much what you know it is what you do with it that counts..
"Knowledge is not something to posess or a comodity that can be sold or transferred". - David Kolb - Experiental Learning.
The practical ability to produce results that directly affect our lives, the knowledge of how to understand, not just a finite piece of understanding. This gives us a compact set of tools we can use everywhere. Productive, Efficient learning. to achieve what we 'need' withput waste.
28/09/2011 21:33:37 Progress today doesn’t guarantee progress in the future
Hey
Very true...But I think it progress for today create a base for your future progress but it is not sure that we get success.
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