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Jim Hunt

Who knows what technology will emerge in the next five years, let alone 20. Yet the education we provide our children now is supposed to last for decades. We cannot train them for jobs that do not even exist yet, but we can provide them with the minds and

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Jim Hunt is highlighting the uncertainty of future technology and the challenge it poses for education, since the skills needed for future jobs are unknown. Instead of focusing on current job training, education should develop children's thinking abilities to prepare them for whatever changes come.

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