Disrupting class

I am regularly asked the question of the relationship between innovation and education. For many, the link is not necessarily obvious. It is through a few books, including Clayton Christensen's Disrupting Class, that it gradually became clear to me that it was not possible to envisage a society of innovation without profoundly reforming the school system, as we know it in France and other countries.

Relatively unknown in France, Mr Christensen has over the years become a reference in the innovation process in the United States. Founder of several international companies, he has spent the last twenty years working -in particular at BCG- on ways to facilitate the emergence of innovation. He has come to realize that the ways of thinking that enable innovation were conceived at school. He observes that it is through the development of students, collective work and empathy that we finally obtain future innovators, and individuals who are significantly more fulfilled than those who have gone through a more "rigid" educational process.

To be put in everyone's hands, particularly in the hands of teachers, researchers in pedagogy (there are few of them but they exist), and all those who are interested in innovation and educational processes.