I’ve been wondering how change really happens. It seems to me to be one of those foundational questions. If you know how to get from where we are to where we need to be next, I want to talk to you. Over the past half a year, I have invited a dozen really big thinkers (and feelers) to talk to me on Kelly Corrigan Wonders and at the end of each conversation, I summarize my takeaways. I share them here in the hopes that they will be useful to us all as we inch our way toward something better.
On higher education:
Both my kids will in college next year spending 529 monty that myhusband and I have been tucking away since way back when Rudy Guiliani was sane and heroic. When writing checks that large, you can’t help but wonder about the value so I gathered a few people to help me see the big picture:
Tara Westover, author of Educated
Lande Ajose, senior policy advisor for education for the state of California
Jeremy Rossmann, MIT dropout and founder of The Make School
Here’s what I took away from those conversations:
1. The best possible outcome of higher education is that each generation becomes a part of the great ongoing conversation…
