SCHOOL: It’s do, not know

Let me ask you a question. Do you think in the future most jobs will be automated? If that is the case then schools are not preparing for the future. They are only preparing us for the knowledge of the past.

Knowledge is one powerful thing, but most knowledge comes from self-exploring passion and trying new things. When will I need the knowledge in my future career to find the powerhouse of the cell? You see, in the future, no one will be hired because of what they know. “Because who cares what you know or if you can recognize a fact because to be honest, we got Siri and Google for that.”

No, in the future people will be hired for what they can do with their knowledge. How far can I really go in this world with the knowledge I learned from school that 56.8 million kids learned also? The future will hire people based off what they can do with their knowledge. I can learn how to build a plane, but someone will build a jet. I can find a cure to Tourette’s, but someone will make a cure to cancer.

You see, school is preparing us how to do a robot’s job when they really should prepare us how to do our own. I have been in school for 10 years now. And I still don’t know how to cook; I don’t know how to do taxes. So what is school for?

WYATT WARNER

Coeur d’Alene