Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community
David Truss - who has moved to a new website - channels Stafford Beer in this look at thye purpose of education. "In a hundred years or so, everyone now alive in the whole earth will be dead - is this not so? ... It would therefore be possible for the human race to run its affairs quite differently, in a wise and benevolent fashion, in a relatively short time... The purpose of education," said Wizard Prang, "is to make sure this doesn't happen."

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