Education or Exploitation?
The point about education is that you put money in and get education out, not that you get rich.
Human-Shaped Society for a Post-Industrial World
The point about education is that you put money in and get education out, not that you get rich.
While we must teach literacy and aim for fluency, we must also do a lot more reading aloud and story-telling than we currently do.
A human-shaped education begins with children and the world they occupy, then moves to a drastic rethinking of of everything that is taught.
Let's imagine a school schedule that exists for the benefit of the children, not the convenience of adults.
In order to be educated, students don’t need to be run through a factory. They need an education that reflects what it means to be human.
Is the universal public . . . experience . . . we foist on our children actually education, and is it any good?
How does education need to change? Diagnose current problems, imagine reforms, and describe the system that best fits a human-shaped life.