How Education Changes The World

Education is society’s absolute greatest resource – it is the foundation for every possible future we could ever hope for. Education for job training, for the future of the economy. Education for knowledge, for the future of academia. Education for teaching, for the future of thought. All of these things combine themselves in our schools and outside of them to educate us.

Schools aren’t just about academics, though. It’s not all just reading and writing and arithmetic. Learning to develop social skills, work together, and adapt to new ideas is what gives people the spark of innovation and ideas to create the future. Schools teach us to learn how to learn, and therefore learn how to create and change the future. Schools are like little incubators, preparing for the future and unlocking the great power of the mind in each and every one of us.

But there are some things you can’t learn in school. There are some lessons learned from teachers without degrees, outside of classrooms. And each of us becomes teachers in our own ways, passing on our stories, knowledge, and values to other whether we mean to or not. You not only learn something every day, but you teach something every day, too. This is what OurPangea can accomplish on a large scale. By bringing people together to teach one another and share in a universal education to improve the future and present, OurPangea seeks to provide ways for education to flourish and for communities of learning to thrive in an unprecedented new era of technology.

We have gathered the accumulation of knowledge across thousands of years all leading to today, and every day we must step into the future with this knowledge and with the mindset of learning and growing to make this future better than our history ever could have dreamed to be. This is why education is important and necessary for the continued survival of society – in schools or outside of them, of academics or philosophy, the education brings us the knowledge we need to hope for and create the future we desire.

How OurPangea Is Sharing And Creating History

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past. 
-Victor Hugo

The past is history, but they also say history repeats itself. No one can deny that each of us lives with the lessons from our past; we know our experiences today will help us understand our future. Collectively we have learned more lessons than we can count and have a veritable catalog of seemingly endless guidance to inform our decisions and make our days easy.

It sounds like common sense, but imagine how different simple day to day decisions would be without leaning on our past. We’d be living in a world populated by Drew Barrymores from 50 First Dates, and no one wants that. It’s astounding to realize that literally everything we do is in some way building on what we’ve done before. Just think about how much your past influences your day to day life.

In our experience at OurPangea our team already has a catalog of lessons learned that are starting to shape our company’s future. We’ve identified, evaluated, and addressed a multitude of items that required a solution. And in most case building that solution started with comparing it to how we’ve previously solved problems. Even in articles from this blog’s brief past we touched on the importance of being mindful of how we all came to be, from our individual history to the past experiences of entire communities.

The unexpected always happens. Well, if OurPangea reminded us how we reacted to the unexpected last time, maybe we’d be less concerned about facing it in the future. Why shouldn’t we be the ones to record our own history? Voltaire once said that history should be written as a philosophy, but that implies that history needs to be written by someone.  What if we gave the responsibility—the power—of writing history not to one individual, but to us, ourselves by recording our day to day interactions and making them coalesce within an index that will record our day to day lives. OurPangea will give us the chance to look back at the lessons of our past easily and shape our futures from there.  It would put the entire catalog of human experience at our fingertips.