I watched a powerful video of Jack Ma, the executive chairman of Alibaba, the largest online market site in the world, speaking at Hong Kong University. He made a very profound statement speaking about the challenge of future education. He said the future won't be knowledge driven as we have had it till now, but wisdom driven, revealed in independent thinking, in creativity and innovative thinking.
What that means is that competitions will shift from trading in only what is known to trading in what is understood and how those are used to solve basic problems.
It means perspectives to life, money, success and pursuits will all change. Even the definitions of work and the workplace will change. People are going to take new roles in other people's lives. Relevance will be redefined, roles will change and expectations and deliveries will be all new, all altered by the taking over of wisdom from knowledge.
Wisdom must be understood. I doubt if this generation has put enough premium on wisdom. We have enough knowledge to do things that will earn us a living. Doctors learn the surgeries and treatments, the accountant learns and knows what to do to balance the books, to audit and so on. The engineer is taught to design physical infrastructure and machines, and has now developed machines to take over from doctors, from the accountant and from himself, to design and manufacture things. In so doing man becomes redundant as the machines he develops take his job from him.
But one thing that man has the capacity of which machines will never have is original independent thinking. This is where wisdom has its edge. This is the new human muscle, his ability to generate wisdom. That's what the next generation would need.
Spiritually speaking, that too will eventually fail to give way to the human spirit to express its supernatural potentials in solving problems but the immediate future is beyond merely learning what has been discovered but deeper understanding of how those discoveries will interplay to create solutions.
We must be properly positioned to break through the barriers of imagination and innovation to solve our problems. One of the greatest problems the future will be presented with is man himself. The problem of the future won't be physical nor social but human as he develops rapidly beyond his freedom towards self destruction. A world where morality and ethics will be questioned and eventually jettisoned and its repercussions denied till the self destruct system in man is activated. Then the real value of wisdom will be seen and sought to save mankind from himself.
This is the time to begin to consider wisdom, to see it as the principal thing, to seek it out, to find and to keep it. It'll be the life saver when fools die.
This is the future. Wisdom is the future. In all thy getting, get wisdom.
Good morning. Have a great week ahead!
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Great insight and message. We are already the decades behind, it seems. So, whatever we do now should have the next three decades in view. Only the instructions of wisdom will help us to catch up and overtake the accelerated malaise of social decadence. What can we do? What can I do? I must be open to change and innovation. I cannot be a dinosaur and forfeit every sense of relevance. I must also be daring, selfless and collaborative. We both the wisdom of the One and the wisdom of the crowd. I should be rooted in the Ancient of Days and not be afraid to digitise. And if, as the body of Christ, already joined up in the Spirit, find the way to join up in the earth, bone to bone, joint to joint, what great display of the manifold wisdom of God our generation would see?!
ReplyDeleteWow... I do not expect less wisdom though but it still a wow to that. So so on point sir... Loaded!
DeleteThis is very insightful. Wisdom is basically practical knowlegde therefore gaining wisdom requires effort on our parts. Thinking outside the box,finding alternative routes to solving problem and also visualising the positive end from the begining. I pray the young generation understand how pivotal this is and not keep settling for less or wallowing in pessimism.
ReplyDeleteAmen. Solid word there. Thank you
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