The future of jobs and education

Broadly speaking, educational activities can be split into two categories: life skills and professional skills. The life skills that we all need to learn, and the way we learn them, have remained relatively consistent across the ages: how to communicate, socialize and survive. But you can argue that today's education system is skewed toward the second category, the teaching of professional skills and it's this category that will face the greatest opportunities and challenges over the next 50 years. While educators prepare students for lives of learning, it's more true to say their role is to prepare students for lifelong careers. But while that was a relatively simple task in the past, it's now much more difficult.