We know that 65% of today’s school children are expected to graduate into jobs that do not exist today, and automation will drive 375 million workers to switch occupational categories by 2030.
When Robert Palmer began his training at Ballarat Teachers’ College in the 1960’s his experiences had been as a receiver of education, rather than an encourager of thinking. The political climate at the time was all about ‘individual differences’ and ‘thematic studies’, but very few knew what these really meant. Robert certainly didn’t. While...