“I will firmly say that one has not looked into education deep enough if he has not watched this vid.”
Very good, I’ll certainly have to listen to a few more lectures by Sir Ken Robinson and read some of his writings.
I believe this is also a great video to watch:
“1 word: privatize”
I agree but a free market in education will not be coming about in any state in our nation anytime soon. Nevertheless, there are still private schools that are in desperate need of innovation. At the moment, private grades schools, high schools and colleges are not innovating. Very of them are significantly different than your average public school.
"There are many ways to learn how to write a song, learn about music, or play bass…
the problem would lie in when you claim you have THE way, subsidize your position, and perform top down analysis and create shitty Platonic confirmtion bias mathematical models around it."
I’m expressing my opinion on how an organization should be run, just like any entrepeneur would. What do you think I’m trying to? Get appointed to the U.S. Department of Education and regulate the curriculums of every school in the nation? I’m not here discussing public policy, obviously we both agree that government-regulated and government-run schools are a mistake. Otherwise, why would I be posting here?
That being said, I’d like to convince both private schools and public school teachers and administrators to try out my ideas. I suspect that private schools and charter schools will be more receptive but it’s still worth trying to reach out to those in the public sector as well IMHO. The less children that are indoctrinated, the better.
Sudbury Schools clearly demonstrate you can still innovate in private schools.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awOAmTaZ4XI
If nothing else, I’ll just have to start my own school. All I need is the right business proposal, the right investors and the right parents. But I’m certainly going to wait until I get some serious business experience and my MBA. In the meantime, I’ll continue to develop and refine my ideas on education.