I’m in a Wellington NZ Starbucks with 32 minutes left on a $5 card. $2.50 American.
Everything here is half-price with the exchange rate–The great mystery is how the dollar can be so strong–but the Internet is never free anywhere. Not even in hotel lobbies. Terrible.
I’ve been reading some discussions on education–or on how education sucks–and what should be done about it.
Doug Nelson sent a link to a VC on hacking education.
Matt Nathan emailed the full hacking education discussion.
He also emailed School of Everything. I’ve seen it in my web wanderings. A great concept. I figure that school of any kind–calling anyone a teacher or a learner–is a problem. We’re all learning in this world all of the time. That is what has changed.
Okay. Someone has to teach the math and physics. And I do want children to go to school.
But the old institutional words–instruction, curriculum, education–represent topdown control. Imagine that the quality or type of instruction–or better said–source is rated and determined by the learners. Then we are set free.
Have you seen this?
Wow.
Power to the people. And then respect for the few have really put in the effort to make it good, who can reach us all, who show up on TED and emerge from the masses to show us the way. Who can tell a very good story. Who can make the journey from 2+2 to quantum physics the magical mystery tour that it is.
I want to email, blog comment, and twitter everyone. But back to the RV and a hike through Victoria Park.
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