 Everything is changing so fast that that content really is is the 20th century way of looking at it So Einstein said and I looked up this on my phone He said never memorize anything you can look up in a book But in the 21st century never memorize anything that you can look upon your phone including Einstein quotes So I knew he said something applicable and I went and I found it and I didn't have to memorize it, but it's there and And and that's that's the age we're dealing with like I don't know how people are going to play trivial pursuit in the next 10 or 20 years Because no one has to remember that Trivial stuff and I think that's a neat opportunity to turn our brain power to problem-solving Which we really really need to do because we've done a lot of tinkering with our civilization and with our planet And we've created some the need to do some problem-solving now to perfect our civilization and to ensure the Sustainability of the ecosystems that support us and we need to be problem-solvers to be able to do that We need to be incredible collaborators to do that We need to be communicators to bring people along those are all of the competencies that are that are relevant And then I think the you know the outcomes that we need to prepare people to participate in are Around productivity and innovation obviously in our economy as we know it today Everything from labor force participation to designing the black box We're going to bolt on tailings ponds to stop having to defend ourselves to the world about water in the oil sands and being able To say no more problem-solvers and then take that black box and go sell it to other mining operations around the world Improve the environment and create prosperity in our province. We need people who can do that sort of thing So it's not just labor force participation It's creating the economy of tomorrow for us to participate in and and ensure our long-term prosperity in Transition to something beyond today's resource economy Second we need people who are making good choices So that and and are equipped and have had the right brain development the right nutrition everything else so that The social determinants of their health are better than the social determinants of this generation because people are talking about how this Generation of kids is going to have a shorter life expectancy than their parents because their nutrition is lousy in a lot of cases They're not getting enough exercise and that's a bad generalization because there's there's outliers on all sides But if with the better social determinants of health, we're going to get that higher productivity. We're gonna but more importantly we're gonna have lower poverty lower homelessness My policing budget is going to get under control again Because we've got people making better choices And and you know another key competitive advantage for Alberta and for Canada is a great public health care system Yes, it could use improvement. Yes, it could use more money But if we want to make it sustainable We're not just going to throw more money at an increasingly unfit population We need to actually get the population to be making healthier choices healthier habits eating better get more exercise basic social determinants of health that have all these cascading benefits and other public policy areas from law and order to economic development to and so on and then We need people to be active citizens to take ownership of these things so productivity social determinants of health and citizenship as well So people can actively participate in decision-making in their community take leadership at the micro and at the macro And I think that goes without saying but then I think the last thing is we need to Become adaptable and resilient in ways that we haven't needed to be because of that pace of change and whether it's Social upheaval and transformation, you know in a city like Edmonton We have the fastest growing urban Aboriginal population in the country and it's a demographic that is very very different so we're thinking about The colonial population frankly, which is an aging population with a lot of baby boomers And there's a lot of public policy conversation about what are we going to do about the aging population when in Aboriginal communities? 50% of them are under 25 and it's the fastest growing population in the country And we're not talking about how do we make sure those people are successful? And if those people aren't successful we get a couple generations of Setback again with the indigenous community, which is not what we need we need to be going in the other direction And I was just I had occasion to have dinner with John Ralston Saul and Adrian Clarkson at a military event They were here for the ppc li 100th and John Ralston Saul was telling me it's the one piece of unfinished business in this country is as Greater success and inclusion for Aboriginal people well-respecting their distinct their distinct status and He's he put it really neat way. He said these kids are going to be successful with or without our help We can decide whether we want to be part of the solution or whether we want to continue to stand in their way So that requires active citizenship on all of our parts. It requires adaptability and resilience It's going to impact social determinants of health, which is going to lead to greater productivity So everyone should be able to buy into this kind of work and yes It's easy to say at the macro It's way harder to to deliver these things at the ground floor, but I think the approach To competencies is going to better prepare our kids to be engaging in those ways in the big questions that we need to solve for a civilization to prosper into the future and to also tackle some of the tough questions around The environment and and ecosystems and also adapting to climate change which in the case of the city of Edmonton We're going to need to raise your your drainage rates a whole lot to upsize our drainage system to deal with the storms that come So because we didn't mitigate climate change and stop it We now have to focus on things like adaptation We should still try to slow it down and level it off if we can but We're stuck with now having to do two billion dollar retrofit on our drainage system So we need engineers and problem solvers and leaders who can communicate the need to make that investment Design the solutions and yes, we need people running the equipment safely and effectively To do the work and so the education system I think is adapting to hopefully prepare all the kind of people We need to do that kind of work in it in a just hyper change environment in the years ahead