"Uber", Mongo e a educação

O objectivo da escola, criada para abastecer as fábricas do século XX, com trabalhadores obedientes e nivelados, é o de produzir gente que cumpre um conjunto de especificações, iguais para todos:

O ideal de Metropolis, o ideal de Magnitograd!

No entanto, este ideal em Mongo é uma autêntica aberração!

"With robots increasingly blurring the lines between human intelligence and its artificial equivalent, the essential human qualities of ingenuity, agility and curiosity are more important than ever. Despite leaving the industrial age for an era of innovation, our compulsory mass schooling model reflects old-fashioned factories. If we want to distinguish ourselves from robots, we need an education model that cultivates creativity rather than crushes it.
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In 19th-century America, the rise of compulsory mass schooling dovetailed with the Industrial Revolution. Emerging factories valued large-scale efficiency and standardization, and these principles seeped into the early “common school” movement, shaping education over the next 150 years. Schools, in turn, began to resemble factories.
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Disillusioned by a factory-style system of schooling that has persisted for over a century, many parents and educators are rejecting schooling in favor of “unschooling.”
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In a dynamic global economy, a fixed curriculum and a classroom inspired by the past can hardly meet the needs of the present, let alone the future.
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Entrepreneurial educators are leading the way in rethinking education through unschooling.
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In the age of robots, human creativity is our key differentiator. Yet compulsory mass schooling continues to operate on an assembly line model better suited to producing widgets than wit. To successfully move into the innovation era, we need a new model of education that supports a child’s natural creativity, exuberance and ingenuity. If schooling was for the past, then unschooling is the future."

Tanta blasfémia junta para os fofinhos que querem criar um Homem Novo e uma Sociedade Nova, formatada por eles. Esta tendência será ferozmente combatida pelos florêncios de muitas antrais incumbentes.

Interessante como isto se relaciona com o tema de fazer reset a um sistema, quando o jogo muda de nível, ou com o do aparecimento da Buurtzorg como reacção ao eficientismo.

E quem vão ser os principais inimigos desta transição? Os que perdem poder, os que perdem mordomias, os que são protegidos pelo sistema actual ainda que assassinem o potencial dos estudantes.

Trecho retirado de "Is Unschooling the Uber of Education?"