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1. Malc Dow says:
   November 16th, 2008 at 23:21

   Interesting article by Roland Meighan (founder of the not-for-profit
   Educational Heretics Press which exists “to question the dogmas of
   schooling in particular and education in general).

   http://www.creatinglearningcommunities.org/book/roots/meighan.htm

   Here’s the spoiler:

   Malc
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   Conclusion:

   In summary, the new synthesis means a new learning system with more
   flexible patterns. The new situation demands alternatives for everybody
   all the time. People trying to persist with the domination of the
   inflexible authoritarian approach of mass schooling are consigning our
   children to the obsolescence of the rigid mind-set.

   The future of learning is exciting but we will need to scrap or recycle
   most of the current system to build one that is more humane, flexible,
   personalized, democratic and educational. One person’s learning career
   is likely to be very varied with spells of home-based education -
   sometimes full-time, sometimes part-time - short experiences of
   residential learning centers, local and international periods of
   learning, regular use of All Year Round/All Age Learning Centers,
   periods in small Charter Learning Centers, or any combination of these
   and other ‘learning sites’ in society. The aim is to make learning
   just too good to miss out on, rather than something needing compulsion and
   coercion.

   Details of Educational Heretics Press are here:
   http://edheretics.gn.apc.org

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