What educational achievements and skills are necessary in today’s world (Professor at the University of Melbourne)

The modern world does not stand still, it moves at an extraordinary speed, and we must learn to go along with time. Today we live in a digital world, and robots are our reality. What educational achievements and skills are needed today? I will try to answer this question based on my personal observations and experience, as well as relying on some scientific articles.

As Patrick Griffin, who is a Professor at the University of Melbourne, said:" in the XXI century, the emphasis is shifting towards the ability to think critically, the ability to interact and communicate creative approach to business. Many researchers add to this curiosity, although it is perhaps not so much a skill as a quality, a personal characteristic of a person." I agree with him. Indeed, if we look back, we will see that the main skills and educational achievements were the ability to read, write and calculate arithmetic operations. Today, all this is not an important and main aspect of achievement and skill. People are valued for a non-standard approach to business, creativity, the ability to quickly adjust and be flexible, perhaps, in our time, human experience and skill is valued more than just education. Of course, educational achievements are also important, for example, proficiency in several languages. If we look at today's successful people, many of them do not even have a higher education, which once again proves the fact that skills and experience are an important factor in the modern world.

In the end, I would like to add that first of all we must be well-educated and spiritually educated people, because without this all the achievements and skills will not turn to the benefit of humanity, but quite the contrary. We have to start teaching, nurturing and instilling skills within ourselves, because prosperity begins with the prosperity of the inner person who has become aware.