[IAEP] Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and "Mastering" Educational SW

[Edward Cherlin]

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 12:12 PM, K. K. Subramaniam<subbukk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 Jul 2009 9:03:26 am Alan Kay wrote:
>>Your last sentence is somewhat parallel to what many business types like to
>>say about how hard it is to measure Return On Investment for research
>>funding. But in the business case, this is actually a form of dissembling,
>>since an enormous percentage of all the GNP (and in fact GWP) comes directly
>>as return from research.
> The top 10% of learners don't need school. The bottom 10% need more than a
> school. For the middle 80%, learning in school should be demonstrably better
> than that out of school. A school is relevant only if it can detect and weed
> out contexts that hinder learning (or have nothing to do with learning) as
> quickly as possible. Otherwise people will vote with their feet.
>
> In one of our local public school parents meet, a poor farmer challenged, "Why
> should I retain my kid in this school? Can you show me one student who studied
> here and became somebody in life? In the field, I can teach him to raise at
> least one crop a year". For him, there was lot more of physics in the farm
> than in school textbooks.

See description of parents' positive reactions in
http://radian.org/notebook/astounded-in-arahuay

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