Will: The Rise of State Schools:
So this pretty much sums it up as well it can be summed up right now:
U.S. schools under the jurisdiction of state and federal governments are now scripted processes that view knowledge as static capital, students as passive and empty vessels, and teachers as compliant conduits for…
This is a sad, but true state of affairs in education, even at the university level in Canada. This is especially so, given the insights and observations of Sugatra Mitra, revealing the learning process as a fundamentally self-organising system.