... The ruling elite has to pretend that it does not exist. It formally acknowledged the legitimacy of the People as the final court of appeal. This involved training and screening the judges.
Basic to maintaining this deception has been control over the media. Also vital has been control over the schools – compulsory attendance laws, teacher certification, tax funding, and school accreditation. Above all has been control over textbooks.
This control is ending in the area of printed media, especially newspapers, which are dying. Control over TV news is fading. Digits are killing them. Now control over education is about to be undermined. Same reason: digits. ...
It still exists in Thailand.
Interesting article. Thanks!
I've audited about 120 hours of the MIT lectures and more of the Google TechTalk lectures. Free information, freely given and freely passed is a great thing.
Stealing intellectual property, on the gripping hand, is something different. Folks need to learn the difference and respect it.
/johnny
Like the Second Wave TV networks (or for that matter smokestack industries), our mass education systems are largely obsolete. Exactly as in the case of the media, education will require a proliferation of new channels and a vast expansion of program diversity. A high-choice systems will have to replace a low-choice system if schools are to prepare people for a decent life in the new Third Wave society, let alone for economically productive roles.
- "PowerShift", Alvin Toffler
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"The children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming, where everyone would be interdependent. "
Yes, a revolution is coming eventually, but it will take a long, long time to overturn the necessary legislation. But this economic crisis is a good time to start planting the idea of the breakup of the educational system.
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It all begins locally. Support your local candidates and state candidates and congressional and US senate candidates. That’s what I’m doing. Lets get real folks in there at all levels. We need to get off of our asses and work for this.
Defeat the RINOs in the primaries and the rats in November.
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Irony of ironies...I earned my teaching certification through a company that uses Moodle. I thought the technology was just amazing!
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At least 15 years ago - probably longer - I predicted the demise of the brick-and-mortal school. That was before the internet took hold, and I was thinking in terms of CD-Rom distributed educational software. Now in hindsight, the net has taken on the job.And the more curricula are out there, and the cheaper those curricula are, the less legitimate the brick-and-mortar school will be. It's not a question of if but when parents wake up and realize that the cost of an education - including college - would pay parents handsomely to homeschool K - college graduation. It would seem that the technology would also interest churches in a revival of sectarian education . . .
If you learned anything about good management and/or sales; you learned from Peter Drucker. Absolutely one of the greats.
Why in the world would he deal with Ron Paul and his organization?
Honesty is one of the cornerstones to Peter Drucker’s teachings.
Now, companies must require college degrees in order to make their applicant pool hopefully contain people who can read and write at a functional level. Pretty soon, they will need to demand Masters degrees to accomplish this purpose.
Eliminating this one requirement would collapse much of the Left's power. What would happen soon thereafter, once an "accredited" degree was no longer necessary, is that business groups would establish their own accrediting groups to rate the worth of degrees from various colleges, controlled for SAT score. If a top-1%-SAT student with a Harvard degree is not more valuable than a top-1%-SAT student from Penn State, then fewer parents will be interested in paying a huge premium for Harvard. If a top-1%-SAT student is offered a starting salary out of high school similar to what a college grad gets, then the allure of college fades.
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