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Simple to complex thinking...

Today, during my presentation at McGraw-Hill Ryerson conference at Mount Royal College (Calgary), I was asked about whether we needed a new conception of what it means to be educated. Short answer: Yes. We need to focus more on the process of becoming educated (education itself needs to be seen as continual, not ending with a degree - but that's a very obvious statement)...not the end product of education. In a sense, we need to make friends with uncertainty. The goal of education is not to eliminate uncertainty, but to hold it in balance. Dave Pollard has some thoughts on moving from simplistic thinking to embracing complexity.