Education

Arguments for : -the Calgary Board of Education is changing the curriculum every 3-4 years to make it more accurate and up to date -we are constantly trying to advance in educational technologies, such as the SMART Board **
 * Overall, we believe that no, Calgary cannot become a Renaissance city because we lack understanding of communication in learning.

-we don't have many new inventions/ideas -Gary Mckinnon thinks that we should change our economy from a natural resource-based to a knowledge-based, yet Calgarians are not willing for this change. They think that it's easier to pull oil and gas out of the ground than actually think for themselves. -only a couple of schools in Calgary are inquiry based (including the Calgary Science School), but in the bigger picture, there needs to be more people/schools inquiring (wondering and going out and discovering for oneself) -during the Renaissance, people wanted to be educated in many different fields, in universities today, students are only educated in one topic. This does not allow communication between students. -people go to universities to succeed for oneself, not for a better world
 * Arguments against :**