[TH Spangler]

What do you guys think about this? It's setting up in Virginia.

http://webpartsllc.com/index.php/featured-articles

Schools.......... Currently, knowledge and the teaching of that knowledge is in the hands of a few, from elementary to high schools to higher education. But why do we need to go through the public or private school system, and why does Harvard and Stanford and MIT control the education of our professionals and academics? Homeschooling, for example, is a growing movement that allows parents to regain control of their child's education, to move away from an authoritarian setting of mind control and towards one of learning, of questioning, of critical thinking — and that's really what education should be. Please understand that I'm not blaming the teachers — they are good people with good intentions, but they are bound by the school system, which is really controlled by our government. The open-source concept can be applied to higher education: imagine an online school for programmers or accountants or businesspeople, where the real professionals decide the curriculum and teach the classes and give out the certificates. If this alternative grows in acceptance (and this will take a long time to happen), there is no reason why a Harvard business degree would be better than an open-source one, which would also be much less expensive.

Government..............

Corporations..............

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[jbock13]

Enough with the dictatorial authoritarian system known as government schools.

Government schools don't teach kids how to think. They teach them what to think.

[TH Spangler]

They just recived a $1 million grant from the Tobacco Commission, which is the government
They expected to create 20 jobs the first year and expand to 260 jobs within three years.

http://www2.godanriver.com/news/2012/ju ... r-1963205/

[NotAJerry]

Good. Enough with the dictatorial authoritarian system known as government schools.

Government schools don't teach kids how to think. They teach them what to think.

As do most private/Christian schools.

The system is based on methods derived during the industrial revolution and has not kept up with how people learn now.

The article does miss on some key ideas, like MIT and Stanford both being part of free online certificate and degree programs already.

There needs to be a dramatic overhaul of the entire educational system from Pre-K through Doctorate. Homeschooling, UnSchooling, multiple assessments (type and quantity), differentiated learning, ability grouping instead of age grouping, project based learning, e-portfolios, etc. all need to take a much larger role in the educational system. Things like pens, pencils, paper, standardized tests, 8 hour school days and more need to go the way of the dodo.

Here's a post from a few years ago that is looking more and more accurate all the time:
http://teachpaperless.blogspot.com.au/2 ... te-in.html

[ALUmnus]

My first thought is, corruption won't allow this to work. That MD certificate I "earned" in Nicaragua isn't gonna get me a nice office at the nearest orthopedics practice.

[adam42381]

Government schools don't teach kids how to think. They teach them what to think.

Sounds exactly like the Christian school/church I grew up attending.

[LUconn]

of course it does