Driven 2 Educate

According to the founder and brand strategist of the Wayfinding Academy, the current education system has it all backwards. First, students are supposed to choose a college, then a major, then a job, then they get to try it out not knowing if all their choices will actually lead to a job they truly like. Couldn’t that be flipped frontwards? Couldn’t we completely reimagine higher education? In this second part of my conversation with Michelle Jones and Gina Lorubbio of the Wayfinding Academy, we address the issue and the importance of education in general and what problems led them to create their own college from scratch. One of the biggest problems of traditional higher education is that students go to college feeling lost and leave college without any idea of what is coming next. What’s even worse is that the system leeches students of all their creativity, spike and joy. Michelle believes that education is not something students should do without knowing their “why”. They sho