A radical change to public education

Subject: A radical change to public education Wed Mar 06, 2013 8:45 pm

I wish I had written this.

Quote :: My public education would have school buildings, but they would be a bit different from those we have now. Some of the usual facilities would be the same: there would be a gymnasium with sports equipment, a science classroom with basic equipment for experiments, an art classroom with art materials, a music classroom with musical instruments, and so on. There would be group study rooms. Instead of 25 to 30 children sitting in rows in the same room all day, there would be smaller rooms where groups could get together to study the same things. There would be no expectation that study should happen in a group unless by chance several people wanted to “borrow” the same teacher for the same lesson at the same time. The teacher would then book a study room for the impromptu class.

There would be no expectation that people needed to be sorted by age. The only time people would need to be sorted by age would be in group sports where it is impractical to have people of very different sizes playing a sport together.

People would choose whatever they wanted to learn. There would be no prescribed curriculum and no prescribed time period for completing tasks.