The conversation started with the observation that education – as a system, as an institution, really, as anything useful, effective and beneficial at all – is broken.
My response: do not try to fix or repair that which is not serving us most beneficially.
So if education is broken, let us NOT fix it. Let’s create education, anew.
I’m not talking about wiping the slate clean. I’m saying throw the slate out and hit the re-set button. Heck, get rid of the machine analogies altogether, and begin anew, organically.
To begin anew, it helps to be clear about what we are looking to accomplish. And it will be most beneficial to throw out the ideas of what we think anything should be or should look like, or how it always has been done. And simply look at, with brand new eyes and open minds and hearts the basic concepts about education that we have been holding as true; why do we have those concepts? Do they serve us?
Well, how do we determine what serves us?
We need to look at what we are choosing to accomplish by what we call education.
What’s the successful “end result” of “education”?
And I’m even saying, don’t just ASSUME we need an “educational system”. Can we wash our minds so clear of what we have been exposed to and have come to hold as true, that we can question if an established system or institutions are the most effective way to accomplish that which we come to identify as the purpose of education?
Then, having examined those notions, begin anew.
Who’s in on the conversation?
If you’re on Twitter – join in the conversation with #eib – another education oriented line of convo is #lrn - see you there!
