Today’s Washington Post here has a column by Chris Whittle who — to great fanfare — founded the Edison Schools in the early 1990s. I love his comparison of a school to an archeaological dig. It’s interesting, though, that he does not think really outside of the school box. I don’t think we need to redesign schools. We should instead think of how to engage children in the new virtual knowledge ecology and then excavate add-ons of what still seems useful out of the archeaological digs we now call schools.
How the best knowledge gets to everybody to learn
