Over a period of eight months, I have been sharing with you the principles of COL (Circle of Learning) while providing the various COL perspectives to further elaborate on the deeper meaning of COL.
So to say that baby takes usually nine months to be born, I am here in my ninth month of blogging. The philosophy of implementation varies from the known to hitherto unknown. If you have heard of “The Deming System of Profound Knowledge” you would probably understand where I am going with this one.
Deming believed profound knowledge generally comes from outside the system and is only useful if it is invited and received with an eagerness to learn and improve. My observation of learning over the past decade has taken me down the same path as Deming took to lead me to COL. However, COL cannot be embraced widely unless it proves to accelerate and improve learning.
The current education system has been choked with a bias towards quantifying and ranking the educational institutions based on some of the criteria that are irrelevant to learning. COL quantifies everything based purely on learning, to give a newer meaning to what should come out of these educational institutions. We don’t need just students, but need an education philosophy that can be identified as having a profound impact on the learning abilities of future generations.
It is sad to hear news about students cheating at ACT and SAT exams to get into good schools. They are forgetting the fact that the schools became good because of a valued and cherished teacher-student relationship. This relationship trust has been marred in recent times with relationships that are sexual in nature. No wonder it has skewed the perceived trust.
It is important to implement COL as a network of schools, businesses, research centers and societies of professionals coming together to give a deeper meaning to learning and to the efforts of skill development. When you probe into Deming’s Seven Deadly diseases, you probably would understand the nature of COL perspectives that I had presented for the past eight months.
Instead of being greedy about innovation, being greedy on money has taken its toll through various economic events that we have been witnessing since 2008-2009. It is time to shift towards innovation that is needed to fuel not just the economy and technology, but fuel the growth of technology-assisted economic processes to transform 21st century from the root up – transform individuals first to transform organizations; transform organizations to transform nations along the way.