I appreciate your thoughtful response, Kevin. However, I think you read more into what I said than was there.

I wasn’t really making an argument, I was asking a question. Is it a foregone conclusion that education will collapse? Everyone seems to think so, but why?

I agree I didn’t get into my full thoughts on this, as it’s waaaay too long for a comment. But that meant I left folks hanging and making assumptions.

I do disagree with you about the purpose of endemic education. I tend to agree with John Taylor Gatto more. The purpose of endemic education wasn’t to lift up the bottom half, but to create factory workers for the Industrial machine.

But the Age of Industrialization is coming to a close, as it must, and so education must change.

Which brings us back around to the question, is it a foregone conclusion that education for the masses will die without state sponsored and enforced education? Especially since it’s at a point of needed mass rethinking about how we go about it anyway?

I do agree with you completely that without a culture of learning for children, all citizens really, it will. Here again changing culture is our jobs not the State’s.

Do we trust the State to foster and develop that or can we do it better ourselves?

Lastly, I know I brought up learning off the internet, but I also mentioned learning pods. Also, the internet is used to establish networks so I’m not sure where or why responders are getting hung up on individual learning. No one learns in a vacuum, but you don’t have to have someone physically sitting beside you and holding your hand for learning to take place. Some things it’s really helpful, yes. But it’s not necessary 100% of the time. It’s just convenient for warehousing children.