Does Our Social Contract for Education Need a Reboot?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Does Our Social Contract for Education Need a Reboot?
Lindsey Tepe, Pacific Standard, 2016/07/22
The idea of the social contract was introduced by Thomas Hobbes in the 1600s as a means of justifying the continued rule of the monarchy. Without the stern rule of the monarch, he wrote, we would return to the state of nature where the lives of men were "solitary, poore, nasty, brutish and short." The myth of the social contract persists to this day, and is used for the same purpose. More...