Is it too late to actually reply to the editorial itself?
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Search engines such as Google have ushered in the era of open-source learning. Society is rapidly progressing to the point where any Googler is on equal footing with a Widener Library pass-holder.
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This is a quote from Richard Florida's book,
Flight of the Creative Class. It basically summarizes my view of education in general:
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We can no longer succeed--or even tread water--with an education system handed down to us from the industrial age since what we no longer need is assembly-line workers. We need one that reflects and reinforces the values, priorities, and requirements of the creative age. Education reform must, at its core, make schools into places where human creativity is cultivated and can flourish.
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The question to ask ourselves is: Why are they doing these things in their spare time? Isn't this the real stuff of education in the creative age? Schools need to be vehicles for enhancing and mobilizing the creative capacities of all our children so that the tinkering of today can be translated into the creative advancement of tomorrow.
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