More Evidence of the Need to Re-Invent Education

This editorial by New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman dates from March of 2013, but its message has only become more timely in the past year.  Friedman references the work of Tony Wagner, the Harvard professor and author of several thought-provoking books on education, who believes that one of the primary goals of education (and one that our current system is not designed to achieve) is for students to be "innovation-ready" when they emerge from school.  Wagner explores this concept in greater depth in his most recent book Creating Innovators which I highly recommend as a primer on the case for re-designing education.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/opinion/sunday/friedman-need-a-job-invent-it.html?ref=thomaslfriedman