The Future of Learning (Score 1)

"Education thus becomes an act of depositing, in which the students are the depositories and the teacher is the depositor. Instead of communicating, the teacher issues communiques and make deposits which the students patiently receive, memorize, and repeat...apart from inquiry...individuals cannot be truly human. Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention."
-- Paulo Freire - Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1993)

Professor Alfred Bork has, for the last 30 years, stated that the educational system that we use around the world is out of date. That the way we use technology today is a waste of money. He supplies a solution, but not in the old framework that teachers and politicians think. Not in the teacher orientated system which was thought out in the 12 century Italy and is still practiced today. Just think about that. We use a system that's almost a thousand years old in a world with 6,5 billion people!

A drastic overhaul of the global educational system is needed. Professor Bork has some very decent thoughts about this on his site: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~bork/papers.html but first read the interview with Alfred Bork: The Future of Learning

(...No no no, he isn't part of the collective.)