New Schools for a New Society
From talking about growth in the last blog, my mind has turned to children and the subject of alternative education. Some of you, I know, are home educating parents and many of you who send your children to school question the methods that are used to teach your children and to interact with them. For the most part, our current school-based education system is still founded on ideas that stemmed from the perceived need to produce compliant recruits for the military and factory workers for the industrial revolution. Schooling in this form can be regarded as part of the, now receding, industrial growth society.
Here’s a delightful video from an alternative sort of school that I think you might enjoy:
For those of you who would like to see lasting, positive changes in the ways that your children are educated at school, the website mentioned in this video is worth a visit. If enough parents and teachers get involved, this could well be a route to the sort of education system that supports the transition to a life sustaining society.
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January 14, 2010
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