Are schools meeting tech-savvy learners’ needs: A very interesting article by an Icelandic upper-secondary student.

Ásgrímur Hermannsson, an Icelandic student in his last year of upper-secondary school (Icelandic upper-secondary school is years 10-14 – most students are aged 20 when they graduate), has written a particularly scathing critique of contemporary education (link goes to more-or-less useful Google translation – the original in Icelandic is here). Ásgrímur’s article is another indication of the growing awareness among youth that the educational systems that are meant to prepare them for the future are falling short.

In his article, titled “How school killed my ambition”, Ásgrímur describes in very direct “no-nonsense” terms his experience and disappointment of going through an educational system that he has increasingly become aware is out of touch with his generation and out of touch with the needs of 21st century society. Although Ásgrímur’s remarks are particularly directed toward education in Iceland, the points he makes can be equally applied to the Western ideal of education that informs educational policy in many countries worldwide.