Posts from — February 2006

A couple of comments about the education system.

1) the system is designed ‘perfectly’ to do what it does. It is designed to limit how and what people think and to prepare them to follow orders (be compliant) so they can be good factory workers and good citizens and not rock the boat. It is not in the interest of the body politic to make changes to a system that works as good as this one does (keeping the majority of the people participating in it within a narrow thought bandwidth).

2) the education system has been one of the only systems that has been able to keep itself isolated from the rest of the world such that it didn’t change while the rest of the world was changing. The current education system is essentially the same as it was 100 years ago.

3) good, sincere people, with good intentions work in the current system. Asking them to change the system is like asking pygmies in the middle of the amazon to change their system (how could you know what you don’t know?)

4) in my experience, working with educators that are attempting to make changes from within the system is akin to trying to rebuild a 747 while flying it. How can you keep flying, keep everyone on board safe and secure, while at the same time take the plane apart and rebuild it into something completely different?

5) changing the education system is equivalent to putting a man on the moon in terms of what it would take to make the education system requisite with the rest of the world (the current world) let alone anticipatory (preparing young people for a tomorrow that is nothing like today).

6) changing the education system used to be one of the most worthwhile endeavors there could be as the education system touched and influenced more human beings then just about anything else. Today, education actually takes place somewhere other then in schools. The entertainment industry could be how most education takes place today (the entertainment industry includes all media like the internet, TV, movies, music, video games, as well as local bars, clubs, county fairs, plays, concerts, etc.)

7) changing schools is still a worthwhile endeavor