Quotes from Will Richardson

The biggest challenge, Yong Zhao states, "is our mindset about what makes good education and the seductive power of the traditional paradigm." At the end of the day, as much as we may claim to value those other, more immeasurable things, we end up looking to old tests and scores to tell us how well our kids are doing.

Let me tweak that just a bit: "In times of great abundance, learners will inherit the earth...." Imagine

It's somewhat ironic (and frustrating), then, that well into what is arguably one of the biggest, most transformative periods in history we still feel the need to point to a digital classroom in schools.

Don't teach my child science; instead, teach my child how to learn science — or history or math or music.

Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.

The world doesn't care what you know. What the world cares about is what you can do with what you know.