Why School Reform Is Impossible

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Seymour Papert[Edit][Delete]: Why School Reform Is Impossible, The Journal of the Learning Sciences [Edit][Delete] October 3, 2006
"The structure of School is so deeply rooted that one reacts to deviations from it as one would to a grammatically deviant utterance: Both feel wrong on a level deeper than one's ability to formulate reasons. This phenomenon is related to 'assimilation blindness' insofar as it refers to a mechanism of mental closure to foreign ideas. More...