This is a thoughtful essay from three years ago on the Schooling the World blog. The author is talking about education through the lens of non-industrial populations and how their organic approach to education is preferable to the standards/assessments approach of the industrial model. When a new form of knowledge is truly vital and desired by a population, and access to the necessary resources is available, there is no question of needing to make education compulsory — you couldn’t stop the spread of knowledge if you tried. Look at how computer technology and expertise spread through the developed world. Personal computers were not invented by people in schools, and the vast majority of the population did not learn how to use them in schools. It was an open-source process – an organically expanding, networking, self-correcting, self-regulating and incredibly effective process – just like the early spread of literacy in many parts of Europe before the institution of widespread schooling.
Posted on: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 18:31:32 +0000
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