As time goes by, I've come to the realization that the problem isn't the amount of information that its available online, but there are many who don't have a way to process information critically in order to differentiate which information is relevant and useful from misinformation. Most people just are able to just memorize facts and figures, but not processing information.
The problem isn't the amount of information out there, but that our education systems put emphasis on memorizing, rather then on giving students the ability to actually process the information they come across, in order to learn new things and make decisions based on that information.
Simple memorization is not longer useful, but rather the ability to process new information and to internalize it in order to be able to act on it in the best possible way according to the needs we have at the moment. What we need now, is that people are able to go through new information and have the ability to use it almost in real time.
As technology is becoming taking over most of the repetitive stuff we do, we need to make sure more people can make the transition to jobs that require the ability to process information and make decisions made upon those new inputs. The main problem is that a large proportion of the population doesn't have that ability, and they are being left behind.
The world is changing at the pace, and direction, that makes it almost impossible for them to adapt to it. Many simply don't have the skills needed to be able to do so, and no place were they can actually learn them to be able to adapt. It isn't that they are unwilling to do so, they cannot adapt because they lack the skills to do so.
While the job market have changed on what it needs, workers haven't kept up to those changing needs because they can access the skills they need. The way we see education needs to change.
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