A paraphrase of something my father used to say (a former teacher and worked in factories for a bit)
"at first, the workers were scared their job were being replaced with automation, then they realized somebody had to run and fix the automatons"
(There's a cartoon to the same point someplace, but I couldn't find it.)
Is it any wonder that the modern educational system, modeled on mass manufacturing techniques, is about to undergo the same kind of "manufacturing" revolution? The problem in the original model, of children as machined goods, is that children are participants in their own learning/building. With a car, you just weld here, screw here, paint this, hammer that. With a child, you show, you tell, you hand hold, you do all that, but in the end it's millions of years of evolution driving a self-organizing pattern recognition cognitive system that needs to do what it does best. You can't shape a mind like you shape a door frame.
"at first, the workers were scared their job were being replaced with automation, then they realized somebody had to run and fix the automatons"
(There's a cartoon to the same point someplace, but I couldn't find it.)
Is it any wonder that the modern educational system, modeled on mass manufacturing techniques, is about to undergo the same kind of "manufacturing" revolution? The problem in the original model, of children as machined goods, is that children are participants in their own learning/building. With a car, you just weld here, screw here, paint this, hammer that. With a child, you show, you tell, you hand hold, you do all that, but in the end it's millions of years of evolution driving a self-organizing pattern recognition cognitive system that needs to do what it does best. You can't shape a mind like you shape a door frame.