Same Old thing

Yes, we like to do the same old thing. Many just want to improve upon what we are already doing. We want it easier, cheaper, faster, greener, smaller, and the like. We don't really want innovation, because innovation would mean real change. Not just changing things for the better, but changing how WE have to do things. People are very resistant to change at times. Now tradition can be good especially for stability. Stability is a good thing, because it builds security and trust. If someone doesn't feel secure then they don't care about some new innovation that may do this or that. Innovation is scary because it involves the unknown. Many people don't like that. They want consistency.

An intersting comment in an email from the Doc about this article said the following: Education is what we do to students, learning is what students to to themselves. I reread this statement several times. The thing I found odd about this (perhaps it comes from my philosophy degree) is that it appears that teachers would carry the responsibility for education but students would be responsible for learning. I'm not really sure what I think about that, but I would love some responses to that line of thinking, agree or disagree.

If we didn’t have schools, what would education look like? The final question from today's post. I think to answer this we would first have to decide if schools had ever existed or if they suddenly shut down today. I will go with they have never existed at least in current form and maybe someone else will post on if they vanished or shut down today. So what if schools as we know them had never been formed. I would assume even in General education schools hadn't come about, then at least small schools (maybe as few as 5 students) would have formed for specific job training. This would be more like apprenticing. So where does that leave us today. I think with the downfall of the traditional family, increased substance abuse, and a selfish attitude, we would be lost without schools. Where would the 8 year old kids be. Not at home studying. Sure maybe 25% would be. But what about the masses that can't stay at home with the kids. They need school as a place to go and learn. I am not saying schools do everything right, but they are needed. Without them we would have a lot of kids sitting at home without direction or in daycare all day long doing nothing.