Education Then and Now

Two Generations, Two Worlds

Imagine a bright 13-year-old today: already experimenting with ChatGPT, generating videos with Suno, designing in Canva, and learning from AI tutors on YouTube. He can build a brand, launch a website, or simulate a physics experiment - all from a mobile phone. The world is his search bar.

Now contrast that with his father, born in the late 1960s. The tools of learning were limited: textbooks, cassette tapes, maybe a BBC Micro if you were lucky. Information came in monthly chunks from Encyclopaedia Britannica. Communication was slow. Feedback took days, not seconds.

Today’s digital-native teen has access to mentors, creativity tools and entire curricula at the touch of a button - many of them free. What once required institutions and gatekeepers now requires only curiosity and connection.

But with that access comes a different challenge: how to focus, filter and flourish in a sea of possibility.

For those who master it, the advantage is extraordinary. It’s not just a new educational system.
It’s a new cognitive universe.

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