"Schools were built on the presumption that teachers and knowledge were in short supply .Hence everyone had to go to a school to get "scarce" knowledge .They were also built on the presumption that everyone of a particular age had equal capabilities -thus if you were 8 plus years of age you would go into Class 3 .!! Like a factory producing mass goods exactly like each other .All that has changed .Knowledge is freely available on the Web and is in abundance .And we cant continue to see schools where children come to study from a narrow content list and knowledge through books published 4 years ago .Knowledge on the net is doubling every 10 hours (by the time some of you read it that figure of 10 may further reduce!!),and google gets 2.4 billion (yes billion!!)hits per day .The question then arises -Do we need schools ?Wiil there be schools 5 years from now ?And if they are run the way we run them now ,will they be relevant" Excerpt from my blog tommorow "A World Without Schools in 5 years ?""
Posted on: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 15:27:21 +0000