Future Learning Design Podcast Learning as If Life Depended on It - A Conversation with Olli-Pekka Heinonen
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Oct 18, 2025 Olli-Pekka Heinonen, the Director General of the International Baccalaureate and author of 'Learning as If Life Depended on It', dives deep into the future of education. He discusses the urgent need to reshape our perceptions shaped by modernity and confront the societal illusions limiting our understanding. Heinonen emphasizes that trust is fading, and transformative change must start at the grassroots level. He advocates for a shift towards learning-focused communities and highlights the importance of connecting with diverse perspectives for a thriving future.
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Writing From Responsibility To Future Generations
- Olli-Pekka began writing from a sense of responsibility to future generations and grandchildren.
- He saw global developments creating conditions that could endanger life's miracle and wanted to prompt action.
We're Not Learning From Global Failures
- Humankind often fails and then fails to learn from those failings, creating risky conditions.
- Olli-Pekka worries we may only change through pain unless we recognise and act on these patterns now.
Declining Trust Breaks Shared Reality
- Declining social trust undermines shared reality and peaceful compromise.
- Eroded trust attacks institutions and makes identity and cooperation much harder.
