.…for discussion:
- The school as we know it is based on a limited understanding of human nature
- School cannot be reformed in isolation from reform of the wider society in which it exists
- School has failure built in
- The concept of mass schooling — one-size-fits-all-schooling — is no longer valid
- School, by its nature, is designed to build society from the top-down, and ignores the criticality of culture in enabling learning from the bottom up
- School isolates learning from life
- School is the primary instrument for social engineering in society today — and all such social engineering is doomed to failure
- Pedagogy in school today is limited by the structures that school imposes
- Disintermediation will happen (is happening?) to schools — but do not look to newspapers, the music industry or the travel industry as models of how this will play out
Just some thoughts.….
I particularly agree with the idea that pedagogy is limited by school structures, not just physical layout but also, in secondaries, the arbitrary nature of the timetable and school day. Only in a school would you start a piece of work, do it for a set time and then leave it to complete it perhaps a week later, like I only washed half the car.