Education
Education has the systemic role of reproduction system; it re-creates the culture, transmits it to the next generation; it decides what the next generation will be like, and what it will be able to inherit; but most importantly—education develops our mental and other habits while we are pliable.
Education is what truly makes society evolve, or fails to do so.
REFLECTION 1 (How is education evolving?) Is education itself capable of evolving as the circumstances change? Contemplate Michael Wesch's lecture on future of education, and Sir Ken Robinson's lecture Changing Education Paradigms REFLECTION 2 (How is education affecting us) Even more importantly—how is education creating the mindset of the coming generation? Daring, creative, responsible... or not? Inspect the node XX that is adjacent to this one, and the TED talk "Ken Robinson says the school kills creativity."
Vision: Education for 21st Century
The way we need to take is, we submit, obvious: Education must above all create the sort of people who are capable of re-creating the world. This means that instead of training young people to adopt a worldview and reproduce a know-how, we train them to think courageously and work creatively. Furthermore, education is not once in a lifetime, but organized so that it is always possible to come back and receive more, even while working. And most importantly: education evolves, in content and in structure; it is perpetually re-created by a
transdiscipline.