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The future of today's youth

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  The “Unscripted” Curriculum: What Your “Portfolio of Self” Looks Like Today? Today, with omnipresent machine intelligence, frictionless instant gratification, and relentlessly piling information in education, the preparation of young adults has become what might as well be called an oxymoron. Never before in human history has information been so universally accessible. And never before have individuals been more precariously prepared to understand what actually to do with it all. For decades, we got pretty good at transferring facts, formulas, and neatly tied bows to our kids. But we largely did ignore anything approximating the conscious cultivation of agency. For today’s young adult, “learning” itself isn’t about what you memorise. Instead, it’s about what you can navigate through. Progress isn’t “walk in the same path until the end”; it is “lay your own brick while you’re in mid-stride.” And that may be even true if the path is forever changing underneath your feet. So, if you...