ABSTRACT
You will have gathered that one of the key assumptions of the hyperthinking theory is that our education systems are deeply inadequate to meet the needs of the information age. My view is that the two biggest holes in education are the absence of learning to think about thinking, and the persistent disconnection between learning and ‘real life’. For modern ‘knowledge workers’ learning has become more critical than it has ever been before, but what we learn and how we learn has not fundamentally changed from the days when schools turned out young people to fit the rigid structures of industrial society. This cannot continue. Our educational systems need to change, and although some in the field have recognised this and are at last starting to debate the way forward, as traditional ‘thinkers’ not doers educationalists are likely to be talking about the problem and not actually solving it for a long time to come.
