Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community
This post brings together the Voices form the New American Schoolhouse video, a nice dramatization of a short talk by Alan Watt (someone I read a fair amount), and some extensive quoting from Ivan Illich, leading to the proposition, as I write, that "The task we should be undertaking is not one of trying to stuff more and more knowledge into students' heads, but rather, finding more and more ways they can make meaningful contributions to society."

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