A Cosmist Manifesto

As civilization has advanced, education has become increasingly important - and increasingly pervasive. This trend is going to continue, until "education" as separate category dies, replaced for those who choose to grow by learning that thoroughly pervades life.

[..] Our formal educational methodologies seem to have advanced less rapidly than many other aspects of society. Our formal education systems seem out of step with rapid-growth hi-tech industries and online communities, and more akin to those old-fashioned, fusty, domains of industry that haven't yet caught up with the times.

Where this leads is to the end of the distinction between education and plain old everyday life. If you learn by doing, and you need to constantly learn while doing anything due to the constant influx of new information... then where lies the distinction between learning and living?

And that's without even mentioning the really groovy stuff - the possibilities for education afforded by, say, cranial jacks feeding knowledge directly into the brain ... or virtual worlds allowing students to try out new experiences in a manner partially self-guided and partially remote-controlled by other ... etc. etc. etc.