BRUCE WHITFIELD’S LOCKDOWN DIARY: No wonder Naspers is betting on online education
The fourth industrial revolution, until now largely a theoretical construct, is about to drag private schools behind the digital bicycle shed and take its lunch money
15 April 2020 - 06:00
Since President Cyril Ramaphosa extended the government-enforced shutdown to the end of April, you are stuck at home, like it or not. But just because you are in lockdown it doesn’t mean you have to dumb down.
It’s up to you how you use this time. You could choose to stew in your own juices for the duration, gain weight and develop grotesque personal hygiene habits. Or you can emerge on the other side of this thing with a new skill, whether it be wall-papering, magic tricks or the smattering of a new language. If not now, when?..
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