For over a year now, my firm has been envisioning a future in which the word "school" no longer conjures up just the first part of life but all of it. We have been thinking long and hard about how learning can never really end, how it must be a lifelong endeavor if we are each to truly flourish, to truly become the best selves we can be.
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In mid-December of last year, my firm was approached with the idea of launching the 9 Billion Schools movement at SXSWedu in Austin in early March. At that time, we were planning to launch in the summer, and late summer at that. But it occurred to us that SXSWedu was the ideal place to launch 9 Billion Schools, even if it meant undertaking a Herculean effort to prepare.
Read MoreIn 1950, the medical profession estimated that the doubling of information in their field would take about 50 years. In 2010, that timeframe shrunk to just 3.4 years. And now, the profession estimates that, come 2020, the doubling of medical knowledge will happen in a mere 73 days!
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