Ok I get it, the education system is broken. What are you doing about your learning though?

I totally agree the education system is toast . It is fun to bash the education system, but the milk is spilt for most of us...
Even if there is an education revolution tomorrow, it probably won't do YOU any good anymore.
No use crying about it, the big question is

"How am I going to learn the new skills to compete in this new kind of economy?"

What worked before won't keep working in the near future.

As I explained in the IDEA ECONOMY, and my article about checking your assumptions, the whole nature of our economy is shifting.

We come from a knowledge economy, where what you knew and the specialised skills you had, made you valuable.
More and more this value is disappearing.
College degrees, despite the fancy diploma and the massive investment, simply are no guarantee anymore that you will get a job with a decent income.
There is a huge educational inflation going on!

While all this is totally true, it is also useless to discuss and get worked up about.
Unless you are a teacher and taking action about it, if and when the education system improves or is revolutionised, it will be too late for most of us.

I like to focus on solutions rather than problems.

While it is true that most of the stuff we learned in school is either obsolete or irrelevant, school does not have a monopoly on learning any more, quite the contrary.

I would encourage you to focus your energy on something more urgent and important than complaining about the education system.

Your own learning!

(Maybe that of your kids to while you are at it...)

From Dictionary.com
*Learning - noun

1. knowledge acquired by systematic study in any field of scholarly application.
   2.the act or process of acquiring knowledge or skill.
2. Psychology. the modification of behavior through practice, training, or experience.*

Like Mark Twain supposedly said
"I never let my schooling interfere with my learning."

Complaining about the education system is not going to prepare you any better for the future.

Like with crypto currency, it is time to decentralise learning and take responsibility for it into your own hands.

Your government obviously is not going to help you in any meaningful way to prepare you to be a future idea economy professional.

That is not because of evil conspiracies, it is just that it is a vast machinery with lots of people who are not incentivized to change the status quo.
Obviously problematic, needs to be fixed, but out of your control.

What is completely in your control in the meantime is your ability to learn...

The education system has totally lost its monopoly on education, with information technology also comes the ability to have unlimited access to knowledge.
That creates another problem!
**Knowledge has become literally valueless.
Cramming your head full of facts and figures
is not going to make you a competitor to Google.

Your value is not determined by what you KNOW anymore.

Your value is determined by what you can DO and how fast you can ADAPT.

Are you an expert in the big programming language?
Though, in a few years it is probably obsolete.
Know about SEO? Though, the rules change every 6 months...
Know how to repair the Iphone 4? Great! What about the Iphone 8?

Obviously the generic skills are still applicable, but the details change constantly.
To get ahead in this new economy, you have to accept that you will be an eternal newbie, where you constantly have to learn from whichever source is most effective.

So your value is also going to depend on how FAST you can learn.

That is the fun part about STEEMIT.com THERE ARE NO EXPERTS YET
The field is wide open, and quite level. Yes there are people who have a first mover advantage but there is so much new development possible, everyone who has the dedication to study and learn the social mechanisms, can do very well.

In real life, when it comes to learning, there is no cheating!

Remember Good Will Hunting ? Gratuitous youtube fragment :

My favorite quote

"You're going to figure out you dropped a 150 grand on an education you could have had for $1.50 in late fees at the library."

That statement is more true than ever, it's never been easier to access knowledge and apply it to learn new skills.
Education, for those who want it, is essentially free already.
Even the biggest universities have a lot of their courses online entirely. Check out MOOC's : still relatively early days, like motorizing a horse and buggy, but look at where that got us.

All means are fair to obtain new ideas that you can remix with your own come up with original stuff.
You can watch Youtube, television, read a book, a blog post,.... whatever, the whole world becomes your educational resource!
You just sample what you need and forget about the rest until you need it.
There are no speed limits any more, you can easily learn more in a month of intensive obsessive reading than most people in 3 years in college.
That is the big lesson of Tim Ferriss; he is a master at deconstructing new skills and focussing on the narrow spectrum of new knowledge that will achieve the biggest progress.

This helps you to develop a strategy to not only learn but learn FAST.

What you don't get is a fancy piece of paper saying you warmed your school bench for four years and were obedient to authority.

But guess what, your local barista most likely has such a fancy paper and the debt to go with it...
I predict that this kind of paper is going to become more and more irrelevant.

The companies of the future don't really want to know about the knowledge you tried to put in your head, they want to see what you have done with it so far.

Knowledge is a tool, a means to an end, and many people are confused about that.
The purpose is not to accumulate knowledge but to do something with it.

The end goal is to start DOING.

That is why the advice of Tai Lopez is so idiotic, he says to read a book A DAY?
I say read 1 good book and APPLY it.
Get stuck? Go to youtube, steemit or wherever there are loads of people who will show you step by step how to do something. Too complicated? Hire a freelancer to do what you can't or teach you.

Like I said elsewhere, I see Steemit.com as a great laboratory experiment.

I can practice all kinds of writing to sharpen and re-mix my ideas, to train myself in creating and executing original ideas.
I hope to collaborate with other people here to do great stuff!
I want to explore ideas that are different from mine so I train my critical thinking skills.

Along the way, I am building my portfolio.
Here is an excellent article from@tarazkp about building your investment portfolio on Steemit.com You need to start looking at your collection of steam it articles more as an investment than past time in this literally a portfolio of achievements.
Think about that when you are ready to submit another funny cat video...

Here are somes strategies to get started:

Write for an audience!

The feedback or lack of feedback will sharpen up your communication skills. If you can't express your ideas, no one will value them! steemit.com is great for that especially since HF19, people will have to consider if they will vote for you!

Try to influence other people

Try a crowd-funding campaign, it doesn't have to be big . Try something nice and concrete.
If you are able to show the ability to convince other people of your ideas get them enthusiastic enough to give you money,
and then execute the idea, you are showing yourself as a tremendously valuable individual.
Any business owner with a brain would hire you. But then again, if you can do this once, why not try to repeat it with ever bigger projects?

Try to get obsessed with learning something new

Try to get into a learning flow on a new topic.
The big problem with the education experiences is that it tries to force human curiosity into a straitjacket.
We are all naturally curious. Poke around some new topics until you find something you want to know everything about
AND then to go DEEP, use sources like Wikipedia or specific YouTube channels that provide indepth info, or whatever resource to find out all you can about something that say like Bitcoin or how to book chain works. Once you will find that kind of topic which interests you, you find that distraction melts away. Have you been to a library lately? Seems outdated but if you are easily distracted give that a try.

Build a new skill

Develop a hands-on skill, whether being digital or physical. Observe your learning process.
Tim Ferriss' "The four hour chef" is a great resource to accelerate your learning of any skill.
Ideally select a skill that combines well with your existing ones.
E.g. Try your hand at a simple video editing, makes videos with your cellphone, upload them to your job and try to edit them.
Your cellphone is busted? Try fixing it! Also a new skill...

Try to make money with a (very) small business

This is not about creating the next Facebook.
It is another great experiment you can try. Especially if you have always worked in a regular job.
Try to start a tiny business, unlike many success books tell you, making money in a business is hard.
Try to make your first hundred dollars with something small and concrete.
That will teach you some very interesting lessons.
Maybe you start to understand the headaches the owner of your company has.

Teach someone else something

Teach what you know, you might be surprised that stuff you take for granted, not many other people know and they want to know. You can do that in person, try to explain someone about Bitcoin. Hard isn't it? You will find you need to clean up your arguments, make it crystal clear before people will understand it well.
Try your hand at the YouTube instructionals are other platforms like Skillshare or Udemy.

Practice something deliberately and observe it!

Find something that you can practice at deliberately. Practising something in itself is a skill. Paying attention to how you learn from your mistakes can give you a great consciousness for your learning process.

Collaborate

Try to collaborate on some kind of project with somebody on the other side of the world. You'll learn a lot about communication, teamwork and how ideas cross cultures.

Build your portfolio

Most importantly start to build an online perfect portfolio of original stuff you did or made.
Concrete achievements that you can show to the world. That will be your best resume if you are aiming to get hired for a job.