Both the New York Times and the Obama administration are very concerned with keeping education exactly as it has been. They are afraid that if radical changes occurred they would be criticized by poor people because they will be seen as having kept the kind of education that made them successful away from the poor.

Read Education Outrage, Roger Schank’s blog about the nation's education system.

This time we will be able to do things that were not possible decades ago. Roger Schank and Barcelona’s La Salle University have created a new Institute of Learning Sciences, which will offer online courses without traditional classes or subjects, and based on real professional tasks.

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The Institute of Learning Sciences at La Salle online

If a person doesn’t get smarter as a result of experience he is called dumb. My new goal is not to build intelligent machines but rather to build an intelligently organized and indexed knowledge base that is easiliy accessible and gets smarter over time.

Go to Corporate Memory

Cave Men did not point and click. People were not built to find information. Enterprises today are in need of channeling the right information to the right person at the right time.

Go to Intelligent Enterprise Software

All training has to involve real experiences. Companies say they want to train their employees better, but they always leave out the end of the sentence that tells you what they are really thinking (without spending too much money).

Find out more about Roger’s work in training.

Companies say they want to innovate better. What they mean is that they want to hire innovation experts who will help bring out the innovator in everyone, so they can feel good about themselves. If they wanted to innovate they would hire those unruly and annoying people who actually have something unusual to say.

Go to the Innovation page to find out more.