Monday, December 13, 2021

General public schooling of children Was for the Industrial Era, individual self-directed learning Is for the Future

Recommendable! The problem of outdated school systems for children has long been recognized for decades, but only with the digital age better and cheaper alternatives are now available!

Given that we are now in the digital age and all the online available education resources, our current public K-12 public schools are outdated! The education of our children will certainly change! Less indoctrination and more education and learning abilities!

"Our current compulsory schooling model was created at the dawn of the Industrial Age. As factories replaced farm work and production moved swiftly outside of homes and into the larger marketplace, 19th century American schooling mirrored the factories that most students would ultimately join. ...
By many accounts, mass schooling has become even more restrictive than it was a century ago, consuming more of childhood and adolescence than at any time in our history. The first compulsory schooling statute, passed in Massachusetts in 1852, required eight to 14-year-olds to attend school a mere 12 weeks a year, six of which were to be consecutive. ...
Enclosing children in increasingly restrictive schooling environments for most of their formative years, and drilling them with a standardized, test-driven curriculum is woefully inadequate for the [future]. ...
While the past belonged to assembly line workers, the future belongs to creative thinkers, experimental doers, and inventive makers. The past relied on passivity; the future will be built on passion. ...
This could help explain why the unschooling, or Self-Directed Education, movement is taking off, with more parents migrating from a schooling model of education for their children to a learning one. With Self-Directed Education, passion is at the center of all learning. Young people follow their interests and pursue their passions, while adults act as facilitators, connecting children and teens to the vast resources of both real and digital communities. In this model, learning is natural, non-coercive, and designed to be directed by the individual herself, rather than by someone else. ..."

Schooling Was for the Industrial Era, Unschooling Is for the Future - Foundation for Economic Education We've entered a new era, the Imagination Age, so why are we still schooling kids like we did in the 19th Century?

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