Education Reform Urged

[From article]
In education, we did much the same thing, going from the one-room schoolhouse — much like a blacksmith shop, where the teacher taught as he/she pleased, and students learned as individuals — to an industrial-model school where students were separated by age and moved along what amounts to an assembly line. Students come in at one end as kindergartners, move step by step along the assembly line getting standardized instruction, and emerge at the other end as graduates. In the industrial era, it worked pretty well, turning out lots of future assembly-line workers, already familiar with following instructions, standing in line, and starting work when the bell rang.

Glenn Reynolds advocates many of the same solutions as John Taylor Gatto. See 

http://enoughroomvideo.blogspot.com/2013/08/dumbing-us-down-by-john-taylor-gatto.html 

for some of Gatto's ideas. 

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/367688/school-instapundit-interview

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