What is Education?

• (1) Passing down basic information and skills; (2) create social networks; (3) teachers as examples.
• Teaching people how to get and generate information; how to know what one does not know
• Not about simply content- but grace, spirit, insight, style, about culture.
• All of you will have to teach

What is the role of formal (institutional) education?

• To provide structure- temporal (need to learn A then B?)
• To provide a place for interdisciplinary learning; a critical mass of resources
• To accredit and authenticate [grades, degrees,
• Retraining and continuous learning
• Need to retrain workers and students
• Need a place where play is recognized and directed