Huff Post Education – Soren Petersen
“The days of the all-powerful manufacturing industry are dwindling, service industries are becoming saturated and knowledge workers commoditized. So, what values, beliefs and attitudes need to be embraced by the next generation to prosper in the future? The old way of landing a secure and well-paying job was to learn to read, write and do arithmetic. Today, however, these skills have become so wide spread that one cannot make a good living without expanding one’s horizons beyond these basics. Today’s Creative Economy calls for individuals with values, beliefs and attitudes that foster a creative reinvention of how meaning will be defined in our world. Developing creative individuals takes a society that values and promotes curious, proactive qualities, interdependence, responsibility and accountability.” (more)