Magazine 2019

33 “As much as we might wish it, there is simply no way we can pack into our students’ heads everything they will need in the years ahead. Many of the specific things we teach them, in fact, will quickly fall out of date. If our students are truly to flourish they need one final element, which we call adaptive learning. Just as the measure of a human brain is not its number of neurons but rather the density of interconnections between them, so is the long-term value of an education to be found not merely in the accumulation of knowledge or skills but in the capacity to forge fresh connections between them, to integrate different elements from one’s education and experience and bring them to bear on new challenges and problems.” - Preface to the Study of Undergraduate Education at Stanford University (p.13)