Predictions for what the future will be like are almost always ambiguous and uncertain since we only have our current scenarios to base our projections on. For instance, writers in the 1950s had imagined the 21st century to encompass a slurry of awe-inspiring wonders, such as swarms of flying cars, sentient robots, and more, along with the colonisation of planets, brought on by the meteoric revolutionisation of the automobile and aeronautics industries. Such a future has definitely not come to life yet, in today’s world; however, the astonishing rise in internet usage and smartphone consumption that we witness today was equally inconceivable at the time. Similarly, predictions for the 22nd century can be just as incredulous and implausible right now, based off of all that we do know, currently. Instead, a more practical approach would be to take a close look at some of the established assumptions and trends in the industry that may develop over the course of the century.

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Education is a human system. Sir Ken Robinson describes it as being ‘not an impersonal, inert engineering system, it’s constantly in flux and changing. It exists in the actions and activities of people every day.’ This means that, as with all human systems, it is unpredictable and subject to influence by any amount of circumstances – making it impossible to guess what the future of education will look like. How the next 100 years of education should look however, depends on a number of factors, including what the purpose of education is believed to be, and whom education is believed to be for. With that in mind, we turned to 100 education thought leaders, influencers and change-makers from across the world to discover their views.

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Education is a human system. Sir Ken Robinson describes it as being ‘not an impersonal, inert engineering system, it’s constantly in flux and changing. It exists in the actions and activities of people every day.’ This means that, as with all human systems, it is unpredictable and subject to influence by any amount of circumstances – making it impossible to guess what the future of education will look like.

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