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LAOP 2021 · No. 04
Pete Baron
Recorded when Pete was a junior at Fairfield University
We're no longer teaching content, because we need to be teaching a way to think. We're not in a knowledge economy anymore. We're in a wisdom economy.
Pete Baron
Recorded when Pete Baron was a junior in the honors program at Fairfield University. I asked Pete what higher education is for, and he said its purpose has moved from handing over content to teaching students how to think, question and reflect. He wants professors to act as guides rather than lecturers. After watching our 2020 virtual summit, Pete designed his own interdisciplinary major around one question: whether socioeconomic inequities are inevitable or can be avoided.
Read the Forbes columnTake the Conviction Diagnostic. In three minutes, see where you've traded who you are for who the room wanted, and exactly where to begin reclaiming it.
His story starts where reinvention did: a family that left everything behind for a new country and refused to call it loss. Cuban Roots →
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