Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
Thomas More, Utopia
The future fallacy occurs when someone makes a comment about what the future will be like and then says that therefore we should be doing (insert something here)…
The 21st century skills argument is exactly this, ‘in the future people will need to collaborate more, be more creative and be prepared for change.’ This is a future fallacy because no-one knows what the future will be like, they can guess but they do not know.
The most bizarre aspect of this fallacy is the way that people lap it up, at education conferences I have heard so many people tell us what the future will be like in order to justify how we should be educating our kids in the present. The most absurd example is the oft repeated…
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