What is Education For?

Today I started reading

It covers some very interesting questions:

  • What is education for?
  • Where should it take place? How? When?
  • What is the ideal school?
  • The ideal lifelong learning experience?
  • Who should be in charge of education?
  • And who pays for it all?

The context for this is

Over the past 150 years, virtually everything has changed…except education. Schools were designed as factories, to train factory workers. The factories are gone, but the schools haven’t changed. It’s time for us to return to first principles…or formulate new first principles…and reimagine education from the ground up.

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