Changing Education Paradigms

Though I've seen this animation video before, I still find it very informative and engaging. The issues that the speaker brings up are very thought-provoking and I feel that even non-educators could benefit from watching this animation. Here's a link to the video for those who haven't seen it before.
It's enlightening to see how our current state of education hasn't changed since the industrial revolution and the effects it has on modern day schooling. It's sad, but true that in today's age, good, hard work and a college degree no longer equates to a job after graduation. The job market is more competitive than ever and these sorts of issues are things we need to consider while policymakers and educators consider how to employ effective changes to our current education paradigm. Some quotes and key ideas I pulled from this video is the discussion about divergent thinking and how this decreases the longer a student is put through traditional schooling, and also that "collaboration is the stuff of growth" yet learning in elementary and high school work against this thought. We teach our students to work independently, solve the problem independently, and don't talk to others because it may illicit copying or cheating of ideas. Yet, collaboration is a vital component of success in any personal growth related to learning and/or a job outside of school. Once you enter the work field, you're expected to collaborate frequently, but often times we don't prepare students with even this most basic form of peer-to-peer communication and cooperation. As future teachers entering the job market, we are the agents of change that our education and schooling needs in order to produce competitive, critical-thinking scholars that can contribute to the growth of our society.