In 1440, a goldsmith’s son named Johannes Gutenberg changed the world that you and I live in today. With his invention of the printing press, he cracked open the gates of knowledge. Ideas no longer resided solely in the minds of scholars or the vaults of monasteries — they could spill across borders, throughout homes, into the hands of ordinary people. It was a revolution. But revolutions take time. While pamphlets spread across Europe, universities clung to old ways. Professors still read aloud to students from hand-copied texts, even as printed books piled up on their shelves. The medium of the future had changed; but many people’s mindsets were still stuck in the past.
Sound familiar?
Right now, we’re living through another Gutenberg-moment in history. Technology and AI have cracked open new gates of knowledge. They are advancing society in new and novel ways. Some of us are advancing with it, while others cling to old ways, hesitant to jump onboard. I get it. Change is scary! It’s also inevitable. And when you look at how technology is affecting today’s students, change becomes necessary — because what we’re witnessing in the classroom today is two different categories of human beings colliding. Ultimately, we need a new category of school for a new category of human.
Let me explain.
