Finding a Middle Way

When imagining the future of education, what responsibility do we have to the present and past?

In Schumpeter’s creative destruction, the new gets created and the old either adapts or gets destroyed. The pain of destruction is just a price paid for the new opportunities created.

I understand the entrepreneurial appeal of this attitude, but it ignores social costs in the same way that reliance on carbon-based fuels ignores “externalities” like global warming.

It seems important to find a middle ground that encourages innovation and change but with a more robust accounting of social costs.

I’ve no idea how to do this in general. But George Siemens makes the case for finding a middle ground when imagining tomorrow’s universities.

He makes a valuable point.