Education as a successful tool

During the first industrial revolution, education was a successful tool for progress, success and social mobility because our institutions recognised the importance of developing cognitive labour. - 123rf.com

WHAT will matter most when solving the world’s biggest challenges? In a recent BBC documentary about Russia’s President Putin, Ian Robertson, the founding director of Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, was quoted as saying: “The psychological and the personal now play a much bigger role in international politics”.

According to him, this is because “the old certainties, the old tectonic plates of ideology and of interests between blocs are all gone and we are now in a system where individual human psychology and personality play much more of a role.”