"Yes, we need better science education and literacy1. But more important — more fundamental — we need to reinvigorate the concept of education itself. Those who are truly educated are also educable, which means taking in new information throughout your life, and being willing to re-investigate, and throw out, even your most cherished beliefs. If our schools and universities are not prepared to do this job, we must ask ourselves: where shall our next educational structures be built?"

~ Heather Heying, Evolutionary Biologist

For too long, we have moved education from something that made us better to a quick means to an end. The goal today is to create an employable person in a specific area. The costs for such have skyrocketed - as if I have to tell you - and the heart of education has fallen away. The heart is teaching a person how to be educable. A simple term - educable - being able to be educated. One of my great joys from university was that it taught me how to research, think, and learn—these concepts are quite out of fashion today. Nothing in our thinking will evolve so long as we reside inside our vacuums, bumping against each other.