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Article: Learning for ourselves: a new paradigm for education; Learning should be taken out of the hands of antiquated school systems and put into the hands of learners, argues a professor and education consultant.
- Article from:
- The Futurist
- Article date:
- November 1, 2004
- Author:
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Education is leaving the schoolhouse. The communications and instructional technologies necessary to make education an anytime anywhere activity rather than a place-bound schoolhouse event have been rapidly evolving for several years. The only step remaining in the United States is to end the public-school monopoly on funding so that learners can leave schools and find the education of their choice.
As a means of educating students, schools have always had their limitations. As early as the seventeenth century, educational reformer John Amos Comenius described schools as "the slaughterhouses of the mind." Charles Dickens referred to school methodologies as ...