The Education Pivot · Pam Roy and Elliot Washor
AI did not create the education crisis. It exposed it.
What is the purpose of education?
“Our modern education process is standardized, mechanical, efficient. But humans are not.”
“What matters to young people needs to start mattering to schools.”
From production
to human potential
From transaction
to relationship
From answers
to agency
What readers will find
In The Education Pivot, we argue that as artificial intelligence becomes increasingly capable of performing tasks once reserved for humans, the central purpose of education must shift from simply preparing students for work to helping them discover lives of meaning and opportunities to matter.
Drawing on Viktor Frankl’s work on meaning and more than three decades of innovation at Big Picture Learning, Pam Roy and Elliot Washor offer a vision for designing education where every young person develops purpose, deep relationships, and the capacity to make a meaningful contribution to their communities and the world.
Praise for The Education Pivot
The Education Pivot offers a compelling vision for educational transformation in an era of artificial intelligence.
The Education Pivot makes a powerful case, rooted in the authors’ experience. Artificial intelligence isn’t destroying education. It’s exposing how much of schooling is already artificial.
This book will be an invaluable resource for educators who haven’t given up on the idea that education can be used to transform lives.
A superb book exploring one of the most important questions facing us all: Will AI make us more robotic, or will it unlock our deepest human qualities?
Pam Roy and Elliot Washor have written the moral call education needs: restore meaning to the center of learning, not compliance.
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