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Rough Diamonds

Rough Diamonds

by Wilfried Vanhonacker

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From Dr. Wilfried R. Vanhonacker's Rough Diamonds: "The future of formal education is about enabling and supporting lifelong learning." Today, formal education is not focused on learning. Instead, it is focused on efficient delivery. It has become a machine that increasingly shuns its core responsibilities. Reality is about to hold it to account. In the twenty-first century, technology is changing at an exponential pace. The knowledge that students gain during their formal education is becoming outdated more rapidly. Without a passion for learning and without a basis and support for continued learning, they can write off their future. In Rough Diamonds, Dr. Wilfried R. Vanhonacker offers personal observations that challenge every aspect of formal education, all with the aim to inspire thoughts on a new paradigm for education and to amplify the momentum for change.
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Wilfried Vanhonacker

Dr. Wilfried R. Vanhonacker is an academic, author, entrepreneur, and thought leader in education. He has served as a professor of business at Columbia University, a professor of marketing at INSEAD, and a professor of marketing and department head at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and he became a dean at the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO in 2008. He has managed complex projects across China, Russia, and the Middle East, and has consulted for governments, international organizations, and corporations. He is the author of Rough Diamonds, which challenges conventional thinking about formal education and calls for a new paradigm.

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