The paradox of the knowledge society is that it does not ask students to acquire more knowledge.

It would be an impossible task to keep up with the speed of new knowledge:
Per day, 3.000 new books are published.
The amount of technical information is doubling every 2 years.

Image you start a 4 year graduate program in any technical field: Half of what you learned during the first year may be outdated by the time you get your degree.

And it is not only the amount of information that is growing so rapidly, it is also the accessibility.

The largest search engines on the internet combined receive about 9 billion search requests per month. Microsoft, Yahoo, Google have changed to way we can access information forever.

And mind you, in its current form, the Internet is only about 10 years old. Think about what will happen during the next 2 or 3 decades.

So the knowledge economy does not necessarily ask for acquiring new knowledge, but it requires to learn how to create, to find, to combine, to use knowledge in new ways and in better ways.

These are deeply human competencies. What this means: In a paradox way the amount of technology surrounding us emphasizes our focus on our own human strengths, such as creativity and social skills.