There was a great piece on the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, the Friday, November 4, 2005 issue. It is called S.O.S. (Save Our Schools). The author is Chris Whittle, the CEO of Edison Schools, a private company that contracts to run public schools. Whittle has been a critic of our current school system for years and is one of a few who have actually tried to improve things by putting his money where is mouth is. His new book, "Crash Course - Imagining A Better Future for Public Education" offers some hope and suggestions. Read it if you can.
There were a couple of paragraphs in his editorial that I thought fit our own situation in electronic technology education and declining enrollments. Consider these:
"I believe that our current school "design" is suffering from educational "metal fatigue", and that we must intentionally seek - and invest in - a fundamentally new gestalt."
Or how about this:
"So what might schools of the future be like? Althought our vision may be osbscured by our attendance at "old design" schools for most of our formative years, educational visionaries can see, through the mist, the coastlines of these new schools. They see schools in which students are much more ehngaged in their "job" of learning; schools where teachers are paid like other professionals; schools that are hybrids between our current brick-and-mortar model and home schooling techniques; schools where the assets of our magical digital age are fully unleashed, not to replace teachers, but rather to work in seamless combination with them."
Like the public school system, we need to change but we do not. Why? Who is at fault? Who is holding us back? I say it is the faculty. What do you think?
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