Future Of Education: Part II
The Reinvention of Lifelong Learning
Education is not the filling of the pail but the lighting of a fire — William Butler Yeats
Education is a process that goes on ’til death. The moment you see someone who knows she has found the one true way, and can call all the others false, then you know you’re in the company of an ignoramus — Maya Angelou
This article explores human ingenuity in designing alternate content and delivery mechanisms to surmount obstacles such as poor infrastructure, lack of teachers and technologies that are pushing the current state of the art further than our imagination.
Alternative Models of Education
An alternative school is an educational establishment with a curriculum and methods that are nontraditional. Such schools offer a wide range of philosophies and teaching methods; some have strong political, scholarly, or philosophical orientations, while others are more ad hoc assemblies of teachers and students dissatisfied with some aspect of mainstream or traditional education (source:wikipedia)
