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My primary reaction to this piece is that it is content that matters in education, not the specific venue in which it is delivered, or put more precisely venue
by markbnj 12y ago
My primary reaction to this piece is that it is content that matters in education, not the specific venue in which it is delivered, or put more precisely venue may matter, but content matters far more. Our ancestors were successfully educated in many different environments. Perhaps modern educational policy makers could worry less about what sort of building to make and who should sit in it, and more about what sort of material to teach and how it should be taught.
- jonnathanson 12y agoAll fair and strong points, but we must keep in mind that our ancestors lived in different societies than we did. Their societies had different economies, different social orders, and in some cases, fundamentally different structures. The education system we have now is an industrial system. That is to say, it was developed in the midst and aftermath of the industrial revolutions of the last several centuries. It is out of date. Unfortunately, "what sort of building to make and who should sit in it" is a very real concern. It's a concern about the efficient allocation of resources in service of a particular outcome. I'd argue that the outcome (i.e., why are we educating our children, and to what particular end?) is in need of reevaluation. Until we can define it for the 21st Century, we're just moving players around on a field with shifting goalposts. Educational reformers, on various sides of various platforms, are tacticians in want of a strategy.