[Discoshaman]

Absolutely. The education establishment stopped being about teaching decades ago. It’s a self-licking ice cream cone these days...

[Vince Ferrer]

If we really wanted to be innovative, we would revisit not only the concept of the school, but also the library. These two institutions are over a thousand years old in their modern forms, but technology has made those forms irrelevant. They existed because information and knowledge was rare and valuable, and had to be preserved and shared cost effectively. The internet and computers completely disrupts those models.

What should a library be like today? It has been completely replaced by Google and the cloud as an effective knowledge repository. I am guessing that what remains of schools and libraries should focus on providing only what cannot be downloaded.

Instead of going to the library to check out a book, we could go to the library to check out a tool to fix our car or home. The training they offer can be more hands on vocational training. Instead of pooling our resources to provide knowledge, we can pool resources and share expensive machines. Our libraries can provide local 3d printing capability.

As for schools, they will provide instruction on physical education that requires interaction, in which I would put sports, music, art, and social skills building. The reading, writing, aritmetic will be left to computers.