Education in the future will be different from how it is now. There will not be school or university classes or a campus. A technical guide will replace the traditional teacher. The objective of learning will be to invent, not to test the students’ ability to memorize information. Students will teach each other. As in medicine, where the drug is prescribed according to the condition of the patient, learning will be prescribed according to the student’s readiness. Artificial intelligence (AI) will enter information into the mind instead of the student having to memorize it. The mind's absorptive capacity will compete with the computer.

We will move with science to where the Internet of things (IoT) will learn from objects and teach students. There will not be printed books or tests to get certifications. There will not even be ministries of education or government education institutions. Knowledge will be available digitally. Educated humans will turn into innovative, digital humans, and civil state will turn into innovative state, where the citizens become knowledge workers and where continuous learning will turn into continuous innovation.
To realize the knowledge revolution, you may read my book The Brave Knowledge World and adopt the way Talal Abu-Ghazaleh University College for Innovation (TAGUCI) graduates inventors, where the student graduates after submitting an invention rather than passing a test. This is because we are now living in two worlds, the real and the virtual. The virtual world will eventually be the real world. Take Finland as an example, where the country is leading the revolution of knowledge-based education in the world (not America, Britain, nor China). A knowledge-based education for a knowledge based society.

The Chairman of Eton College says that students will teach themselves, each other, and teachers, who will turn into technical assistants rather than teachers. The President of Harvard University, Laurence Summers, says, “The knowledge revolution will make the current education system collapse.” The President of Stanford University, John Hennessey, says, “Education will face the digital revolution tsunami. Siri will allow you to obtain information using voice. We will witness the death of libraries. Robots, AI, bioinformatics, nanotechnology, genetics, and other technologies will be the sciences of the future.”
Finland will not teach writing as a prerequisite and will switch to scripts and smart boards. It will also move from teaching subjects, such as Geography, Physics, etc., to phenomena-based learning.

Education will be achieved by learning and research and it will be available for all through integrated, online schools around the world, such as the Connections Academy. Internet will be available to everyone at high speeds. Half of education will be research based and the other half will be vocational. There is also Sweden, which is on its way to transfer all public education institutions to the private sector. It will impose radical changes to the requirements of the academic path in universities, where professional certificates will be included in the requirements for graduation from universities and the calculation of academic credit hours for them. This way, the students will graduate from the university ready for the labor market, with an academic and professional certificates specialized in the field of study. I am quoting H.E. Ahmed Aboul Gheit, the Arab League Secretary General, “The Arab world has two options, either to innovate or face extinction.”

Finally, societies will be divided into knowledge-based and non-knowledge-based. Non knowledge based societies will have:
1. Chalk and board.
2. A physical campus.
3. Students using desks.
4. The objective of education and testing being memorization.
5. Educating students to graduate job seekers.
6. Ministries governing education institutions.
7. Unqualified teachers.
8. Repetitive, traditional curricula.
9. Lazy students.
10. Old PCs that use primitive, out dated technologies.