The Story About Education (1)
The Story about Education
Getting Your Story Right at the Start. Storytelling about Education for a Creative & Self - Reliant Age.
Background Story
* Our school system is still a thinly disguised conspiracy to quash creativity
* We are at an infection point. We seem to be reinventing everything - except the school system, which should (in theory) underpin, even lead, the rest.
* Our education system is a second-rate, factory-style organization pumping out obsolete information in obsolete ways
* Our educational thinking is concerned with; 'what is'. It is not good at designing: 'what can be'
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* I feel sorry for the kids inside schools. Little changed since Pippi Longstocking.
The Call to Adventure
We attempt to 'reform' an educational system that was designed for the Industrial Age - for an era in which employees needed to know their place and in which employers needed uniformly trained, interchangeable parts (workers in collars both blue and white). Yet now we must prepare for a world in which value emerges from individual initiative and creativity. And we must reject all notions of 'reform' that merely serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity more bureaucracy.
The Journey
I will take this journey around the world to search for stories about school systems and educators that recognize that learning is natural, that a love of learning is normal and that real learning is passionate learning. A search for school curricula which value questions above answers... creativity above fact regurgitation... individuality above uniformity... and excellence above standardized performance. A search for societies which respect their teachers and principals, pays them well, and (most important) grants them the autonomy to do their job... as the creative individuals they are, and for the creative individuals in their charge.
Do you believe I should tell your story? As educator, as school system, as society? Let me know.