"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another." ~ G.K. Chesterton

Education has been around for a VERY long time and schools and Universities date all the way back to the 1100's. The droves of people going to a place of academia for hundreds of years has changed very little up until now. While different implementations and methodologies have changed, like Finland's:

For the rest of us, not much else has changed:

• We all go to buildings to get a higher education taught by a person or two standing in front of the room and many eyes watching.
• There is very little to almost no interactions.
• Schools are not very "with it" when it comes to applicable life skills outside the classroom, unless you go to a trade school.
• Testing where one cannot ask anyone, look at their notes, make a phone call, look it up online or in a book. (when, other than academics, are we ever in the real world where this happens?)

But with the pandemic, this can change as more and more people move their children to online learning models:

Now that the opportunity risen, will it finally change for the Information/Technology age we are in, is the real question?
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