“The ability to ask good questions. Almost all of the answers to traditional school problems are on the internet—What is not on the internet are the questions.”
As much as some people may yearn for the simpler times of the past, life will continue to move forward as the natural order of society requires.
If we do not take time to understand new information and how it interacts with what we do, we, as a profession, may go the way of typewriters, photographic film, super 8 film, 8 track cassettes, landline telephones, or block-ice refrigeration.
Staying up-to-date, relevant, on information in your own profession is a moral imperative. We can’t expect what we learned as college students to carry us through a 30 or 40-year career.