<story><title>Forget coding, we need to teach our kids how to dream</title><url>https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/04/forget-coding-we-need-to-teach-our-kids-how-to-dream</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jdietrich</author><text>When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. If you want to expand someone&amp;#x27;s sense of what is possible, teach them a practical skill.&lt;p&gt;I have no idea how to teach someone to dream. I can teach someone to look at a piece of lumber and see a jewellery box or a bird table or a guitar. I can teach someone to look at a pile of scrap electronics and see a headphone amplifier or an egg timer or a robot. I can teach someone to look at a group of bored people and see a theatre company or a choir or an expedition.&lt;p&gt;IMO, we&amp;#x27;re seeing a generation of young people who want to change the world, but only know how to write essays and recite facts. There&amp;#x27;s a desperate lack of &lt;i&gt;doing&lt;/i&gt; in the lives of our children - they have been taught by thousands of hours of schooling and after-schooling to be obedient followers. They&amp;#x27;re very good at being squeaky wheels, but they don&amp;#x27;t know how to make things happen. Their lives are bereft of making and doing, of unstructured and unsupervised play.</text></comment>
<story><title>Forget coding, we need to teach our kids how to dream</title><url>https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/04/forget-coding-we-need-to-teach-our-kids-how-to-dream</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>knappa</author><text>&amp;gt; I don’t need to know how to code or shoot in 360 degrees or big rights to music, but I do need to know the very best people who can.&lt;p&gt;We can&amp;#x27;t all be managers.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; We can’t begin to imagine a career in 2020, let alone 2030.&lt;p&gt;Come on. Those are 3 and 13 years away.</text></comment>