You may not agree with my arguments here, but there is surely little doubt that we need to try something new. Because what we’ve been doing in recent years in most developed countries is to reheat 19th and 20th-century thinking and serve it up as a forward-looking approach. The world, however, no longer conforms to 19th and 20th-century models of development. Why then, do we think that we’ll find the answers by looking backwards? As the great educational philosopher, John Dewey, once said, “If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.”
