The call of the present: Quantum paradigm in education

Abstract

Our education system is in its demise. While the other sectors in the world are continually striving to synch with the industrial advancements and technological disruptions, our schools have long been locked into the same, unchanging Newtonian paradigm. While many other sectors have spent the last two decades modernizing their core designs and know-how, our schools continue to bank on the educational model and know-how rooted back in the Industrial Revolution. Our Newtonian-inspired education system still suffers from obsolete methodologies and educational content dating back to the Industrial age. The current academic educational system has reached the end of its mainstream usefulness. It does not address our needs. It does not produce the workforce that we need. It is a system essentially to train thinkers-who are not, also, doers (i.e. academic training) or a system to train doers who are not also thinkers (i.e. vocational training for less academically minded). However, what we need now is thinkers who are also doers and doers who can also think. Although most people seem to declare technology as the only savior in the current situation. The truth is far from it. What we need is a true paradigm shift (shift from Newtonian paradigm to Quantum paradigm). Thus, in this chapter, we will suggest empowerment education as the true tenet of new paradigm in education and disruptive forms of education as a way to accomplish a true transformation. What we need is to (1) adopt a more relevant and meaningful purpose for our schooling, (2) turn our learner into solutionaries and train our teachers to educate our youth to be solutionaries, and (3) avoid using proxies in education and focus more on real-world problems and projects instead. © 2025 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.