.…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- The concept of mass schooling — one-size-fits-all-schooling — is no longer valid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.….