Will Richardson posted his Manifesto on LinkedIn but I've taken the liberty of providing a copy here (34 page PDF) so readers will not have to log in to the closed website. As a manifesto it's a bit wordy, but it's hard to disagree with the core thesis: the world is facing a series of existential crises, and the education system has not adapted to meet them successfully. Instead, it is locked in to supporting the same traditional systems and incentives that are leading global society to collapse. The sorts of solutions he envisions look like the Agora concept in the Netherlands and a set of Inner Development Goals, modeled after the Sustainable Development Goals, and resembling (in my opinion) an expansive form of virtue ethics. I don't think these are the right solutions, but there is no doubt that he has identified the right problem.
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