About the book
Machines are getting better at the things we were trained to do. Outlearn the Future is about the things they can’t do: the human skills that now matter most, and how to keep learning them for the rest of your working life.
Early readers
Louka’s work as an educator and leader reminds us that the future depends on how deeply we connect with ourselves, one another, and our capacity to learn. This book brings that vision to life by inviting us to question old habits, reclaim our curiosity, and put human flourishing at the heart of how we live, learn, and lead.
Marc Brackett, Ph.D.founding director, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and best-selling author of Permission To Feel and Dealing with Feeling
A wise and delightfully chirpy guide to the future, and to the absolutely pivotal role that learning plays for thriving in a complex world.
Guy ClaxtonEmeritus Professor of the Learning Sciences, and co-author of Bodies of Learning: How Embodiment Science Transforms Education
In a world being rapidly reshaped by AI, we will all need to unlearn, relearn, and ultimately outlearn. Louka Parry offers a compelling vision for doing just that, not by becoming more like machines, but by becoming more fully human. Outlearn the Future is an inspiring call to cultivate the curiosity, agency, belonging, and relational intelligence we need to flourish in the age of AI.
Isabelle C. HauExecutive Director, Stanford Accelerator for Learning, and author of Love to Learn
If you struggle to make sense of all the change and complexity in the world, this book is for you. Louka Parry takes us on a journey where learning is a life skill, showing us how to find meaning in this special era of ours. He shares his learnings in life with authenticity and passion, like an improvising jazz musician, transforming his lived experiences with professionalism to an inspiring narrative. This book matters!
Olli-Pekka HeinonenDirector General, International Baccalaureate Organization
We are living in challenging times, our education systems and our ideas about learning need to evolve. Outlearn the Future is the perfect guide to help each of us plot a way forward that will lead to better education, and better relationships with technology, with the world around us, and most importantly with each other. Transformation for flourishing is a collective act.
Dominic RegesterDirector, Salzburg Global Center for Education Transformation
Remarkable — a pathfinder — learning a future worth living by becoming more fully human — uplifting!
Anthony Mackay AMCo Chair Learning Creates Australia
Louka Parry has the rare gift of making the future of learning feel urgent and hopeful at the same time. In Outlearn the Future, he brings fresh thinking to empowering life-long, life-wide and life-deep learning. This book is as practical as it is philosophical. We need both to Outlearn the Future
Jan Owen AMFounder, AdaptabilityQ, Co-chair, Learning Creates Australia
Louka’s heart-full and curious commitment learning is evident in everything he does! And this book is no different. His brilliant call to all of us to learn like our collective futures depend on it jumps off every page. We can only “outhuman” what’s coming together! I’m all in, what about you?!
Tim LoganInternational Baccalaureate and host of the Future Learning Design podcast
This book matters because it provokes, it challenges and, at times, it unsettles. For educators, leaders, parents and anyone serious about shaping a more human future for learning and work, it may well become the book you keep going back to as you chew over yet another idea.
Dr Stephen Harris FRSACo-Founder, Learnlife, Barcelona
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