{"id":30255,"date":"2016-09-17T01:47:14","date_gmt":"2016-09-17T08:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/kurzweil-says-passion-projects-are-the-best-way-to-learn"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:26:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:26:59","slug":"kurzweil-says-passion-projects-are-the-best-way-to-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/kurzweil-says-passion-projects-are-the-best-way-to-learn","title":{"rendered":"Kurzweil Says Passion Projects Are the Best Way to Learn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zTPDdukRUzw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cThe whole model of education, of stuffing information into kids\u2019 minds is very much obsolete, since we carry all the knowledge of the world on our belts\u2026 The knowledge we carry around with us is only going to get ever more rich, and it\u2019s going to become more and more intimately integrated with our lives.\u201d says Kurzweil.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While traditional education has revolved around rote memorization and standardized testing, the one-size-fits-all model of learning pales in comparison to passionately engaging in problems we\u2019re personally interested in solving.<\/p>\n<p>Even today, beginning to treat education as doing\u2014not thinking only\u2014can positively impact society as successful projects outweigh abstract degrees and credentials. Understanding what it takes to solve a complicated problem, according to Kurzweil, is far more beneficial than attempting to \u201cmake a living.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/09\/15\/kurzweil-says-passion-projects-are-the-best-way-to-learn\/?utm_content=buffer144df&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook-hub&utm_campaign=buffer\">http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/09\/15\/kurzweil-says-passion-p...ign=buffer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe whole model of education, of stuffing information into kids\u2019 minds is very much obsolete, since we carry all the knowledge of the world on our belts\u2026 The knowledge we carry around with us is only going to get ever more rich, and it\u2019s going to become more and more intimately integrated with our lives.\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,2018],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-ray-kurzweil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60357,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30255\/revisions\/60357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}