Many people enjoy watching the season change. The trees turn from green to yellow to orange to brown. This example of change is constant and expected. Do you enjoy watching the seasons change (if they do in your location!)? What do you like or not like about it? How do you feel when the usual pattern in our world is disrupted or changes? When what we expect to happen no longer does? Even the constant changes of the season, that we come to expect each year, can be disrupted. C

The Melbourne Declaration acknowledges the importance of developing lifelong learners who demonstrate creativity and problem solving skills (Moyle, 2010; Sawyer, 2006). Futurist Alvin Toffler claims: “The illiterate of the 21st Century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.” Have you ever wondered why some people achieve well in life in spite of their school education? Those who may have dropped out? Failed the big exam?