Let us think about Bill Gates predictions on college education
Since we keep publishing / being interested in – online or not – literature of the present and the past that has a real value, we have not reached the point of pure barbarity – the point of Mongolia, let’s say, when even the slightest exception is unthinkable and barbarity covers everything.
We discuss about improving the whole quality of our societies, including general education, because we know that even the greatest thinker needs some ground, he can not come out of Nothing at all – and we care about his coming, because we care about values the emergence of which is not given and certain, but only probable and very difficult. Even our modest interest and discussions in blogs, magazines and newspapers are ways of the society itself to start leaving its barbarity and inviting its spiritual leaders.
Gates’ predictions about the future of college education presuppose the educational powers of history itself, a modest (at least) will of the societies to open themselves to the influence of past cultural creations, being inspired by them and avoiding barbarity, as well as individuals with an exceptional passion for learning and creating.
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