Disruption (It's all about people and networks)
Quote: "Innovation by the entrepreneur, argued Schumpeter, led to gales of 'creative destruction' as innovations caused old inventories, ideas, technologies, skills, and equipment to become obsolete. The question, as Schumpeter saw it, was not 'how capitalism administers existing structures,... [but] how it creates and destroys them.' This creative destruction, he believed, caused continuous progress and improved standards of living for everyone."
Comment: Creative destruction is a great term...and it applies to learning, not only capitalism. I've often found that existing understanding causes an inability to grasp a new concept or idea. I have to do away with the knowledge that no longer works...in order to acquire what does. Much of learning is unlearning.
I think creative destruction in capitalism means the kind of action USA do in Iraq. To put down a countrie to have where to improve buzzines.
This kind of creative destruction is not good for education. The changes must be dialetics (?). The old things are in the new things. Like the whole thing are in the part and the part are in the whole thing.
I agree we must unlearn to, but we have to be carefull to not destroy like capitalism does.
regards,
Suzana
Posted by: Suzana at August 18, 2003 11:40 AM