Learning, unlearning and relearning — Women, Education, Lifelong Learning and the 4th Industrial Revolution.

There is something inherently comfortable with linearity; we are comfortable with structure and order and we avoid disruption;

Think: Education: Primary to Sec to Higher Education;Bachelor degree to masters to doctorate:

Jobs/Careers: from Junior to Senior to Executive to retirement- the ladder climbing.

LINEAR is comfortable so comfortable.

We are like this with acquisition of knowledge-LEARNING; LEARN and SAVE the knowledge; learn something else and save again. Done.

The genius of Darwin’s Evolution can be taken lightly at times but you can not argue with the logic behind it over the centuries; think about the primitive stage of mankind; the neanderthals; LEARNING to walk with all 4 limbs only to LEARN that you could be more efficient if you LEARN to walk with just 2! But wait a second; is that Learning or is that UNLEARNING ? From primitive tools of the stone ages to the sharp tools developed through the industrial revolution iterations; assembly chains and factories to automation as man evolved over time where LEARNING and UNLEARNING was concurrent in its subtlety.

But there has never been a time where this is required more than the present time with the 4IR;

Automation and AI will generate prosperity and millions of new jobs, but as many as 375 million people worldwide will need to shift occupational categories and upgrade skills during the…