The story of Human civilisation unfolded in stages beginning from agricultural to industrial to information to knowledge and now it is entering the age of wisdom. We look around the world and find numerous challenges, such as war, hunger, poverty, and lack of access to good quality education despite knowledge available in abundance. The abundant knowledge is inadequate to provide solutions to some of the key problems of the modern society. If knowledge is available, where are we lacking? The problem lies in the absence of wisdom. Wisdom is the ability to use existing knowledge for the purpose of pursuing the larger good. To employ wisdom is to reflect and devise a solution to human problems keeping the larger public good in mind. The pool of knowledge is not going to offer solutions to human problems and miseries. It is the wisdom embodied in humans that would direct them towards what is worth pursuing in that corpus of knowledge. Wisdom is a beckon light that explicates the objectives of human life i.e., happiness, health, education, justice, equality, and freedom. It also requires an aptitude driven in the direction of “we” and not “me”. This would lead the collaboration amongst people across the globe to use the current knowledge for the upliftment of the downtrodden, to restore dignity upon human life.

Can wisdom be taught? The answer is, yes. The responsibility to prepare teachers for wisdom-based society lies with the Teacher Professional Development Programmes. The competency to arrive at wise and not just informed decisions should be placed at the heart of teacher education discourse. Educating for wisdom requires the teacher learners to employ the ethical considerations imbued in the philosophy of wisdom. Following it, theoretical understanding of how children learn and how learning takes place will lead towards the creation of critical contexts of learning in Metaverse Labs and followed by in real classroom conversations. The teachers of these classrooms will bring in real world issues to the young minds. Following intense discussions, pupils would come to conclusions, such as what is right and what is wrong that would have universal relevance.

The future belongs to generation alpha which is exposed to a wisdom-based decision-making process and capable of envisioning what a wiser world looks like. This can be achieved by Teacher Education Programmes only by mentoring and coaching future teachers to become reflective, empathetic, critical, and wise practitioners of the education profession.