Your school will try to teach you facts, which you’ll need to pass the test but which are otherwise useless. In passing you may learn some useful skills, like literacy, which you should cultivate. But…schools won’t teach you the things you really need to learn in order to be successful, either in business (whether or not you choose to live life as a toady) or in life.

Stephen Downes thinks that genuine learning means something more than how to succeed in a business environment; and here’s his list of things you really need to learn.