It appears we are moving away from traditional public learning centers, the big box schools. I get the sense that the model for these older schools was machines. Possibly that was done due to often times the young person would graduate to a factory work environment.
Repetitive factory work isn't the dominate force in our society any longer. Largely due to automation and the internet, our work environment is changing. When it comes to schools of the future, hard to say for sure what will come next. We are likely to see a time of experimentation.
Overall, it appears parents are loosing faith in public schools. Families are now in search of better quality, more modern teaching methods.
"Americans Flee Public Schools"
http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/ ... c-schools/
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Something very strange is happening around the country: students are disappearing from America’s public schools.
The New York Times reports that many of the country’s largest school districts are rapidly losing students as parents lucky enough to have the choice switch their kids to private and charter schools. In the country’s largest school districts, public school enrollment is down by about 10 percent while charter school enrollment is up by more than 60 percent. This mass flight by newly empowered families is forcing tough choices on school districts:...
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"Does School Stunt The Teenage Brain?"
http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/ ... age-brain/snippet:
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...Nevertheless, the piece points to something important: the modern situation in which kids reach puberty early and economic and emotional adulthood relatively late is not necessarily ideal. Ideally, kids’ lives should integrate both work and study through life — not as nine year old factory slaves, but more like the way kids on American family farms acquired more and more responsible roles as they grew up.
Apprenticeships and other forms of education could well be healthier and more effective than our present over-emphasis on the classroom.
School reform in America needs to involve much more than objective test scores. The 20th century universal school system of rigid grades and the growing separation of learning and work may have made sense 100 years ago. To sit still, follow directions, move with the herd and live by the clock were important skills in the days when repetitive jobs in factories and offices were how most adults lived. But civilization is at a higher level now, and we need to prepare kids for more fluid and dynamic lives.
You don’t need to be a neurologist to see that modern schools stunt brains.
26 Oct 2012, 8:42 pm
