Monday, November 17, 2008

Framing for the Proposed Legislation (Previous Post)

Stephen Dill proposes a 21st Century system based on these objectives:
  1. Extend education throughout life. Make it a part of our daily lives and have it begin with birth and end soon after death.
  2. Take education out of centralized buildings (schools) and make it the responsibility of the family, community, nation, and the world.
  3. Leverage technology to enable everyone to have access to the same resources.

Scenario

Let’s look at this from the perspective of the individual and step it out to the world.

Individuals

  • Youth education is seen as a family function, augmented by a volunteer force of seniors, retirees, and experts available in the immediate and adjacent communities performing the roles of teacher, coach and mentor.
  • Youth education begins in the home using modules with lessons for parent, child and siblings.
  • Individual education is an individual’s obligation to society, advocated by federal law, supported by employers, communities and families.
  • Course topics cross all philosophies, languages, religions and beliefs for the old and the young they are teaching.
  • Team teaching is carried out in playgroups in neighborhoods in homes, community centers, parks and businesses. Groups of adults of all ages with similar interests meet in public and corporate settings as well as virtually within collaborative Web environments. Parents and children gather in homes and community centers, sharing interests and research and reporting progress among peers.
  • When the individual exhibits enough maturity, progress is self-determined, self-monitored and presented to the relevant communities for input and use by others.
  • Learning happens in life: in the workplace, the libraries, on the farms, in the factories of the immediate and adjacent neighborhoods.
  • Scheduling, networking and cross leveling of resources is supported online.
  • Education is not seen as a formal stage of life, instead a life-long habit of reading, reflecting, exchanging and growing.

US education system

  • Facilitates discussions about learning, living and life.
  • Teaches self esteem, self-confidence and the value of improving one’s self, community, nation, world and legacy.
  • Gradually returns school buildings to alternative uses.

US culture

  • Gradually encourages lifelong learning
  • Respect for generations, races and all differences is built into every person’s thinking as they learn to rely on more and more people in order to learn, to carry out their obligation.

World culture

  • Understanding and respect for nationalities, beliefs, generations, races and all differences is built into every person’s thinking as they learn to rely on more and more people in order to learn, to carry out their obligation.
Provided: By Don Carli

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