Cultivating Lifelong Learning

As we conclude a 2020 that was unlike any other year I have experienced and dive into a new year, 2021 promises to bring a plethora of additional opportunities and transformation all around us. Transformation in business, politics, practices, travel…and the list goes on. So with transformation in mind, today I found myself giving a lot more thought to how we might transform how we look at education.

Please do disagree with me, but I find many of us considering education as something that happens to us, for a period of time, and at a given point in time. In other words, we are required to go to college and listen to sage doctorate holding faculty for our undergraduate education (=happens to us) for a period of four years (=for a period of time) most often when we are 18-24 years old (=at a given point in time). And, we are told we are ‘done’. Done? 

I will certainly touch on these variables in future posts, but what if instead of being ‘done’ after this period of when we are/were 18-24 years old where we invested some amount of money towards our education and livelihood, what if we increased, and spread, our investment into our education over several years? Perhaps a transformation from a snapshot of 4 years worth of education to one of 40+ years would allow us to mature, serve, and transform what, when, and how we serve those around us.