The End of Education

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Derek Wenmoth[Edit][Delete]: The End of Education, November 17, 2006
This is right: "The real changes that the computer is bringing about - changes in the way we see reality - remain invisible." And it reminds me of this (and I think it's a crime we can't get full-text James Baldwin online): "The purpose of education, finally, is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions, to say to himself this is black or this is white, to decide for himself whether there is a God in heaven or not". More...